Charles Lamb Introduction Augustine Birrell (8 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4.5 x 7.5"; 294 pages; red cloth boards with gilt lamb carrying a flag to front board, brown cloth spine, detached at back board, gilt title; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; otherwise good bright clean book;

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Firmly bound, brown cloth boards, brown leather spine. Scuffing on cover and spine. Marks on some pages. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 294 p., clean and unmarked except for name of former owner on front end page decorated with silhouettes; mildly age-toned paper strong; AEG; ill.; brown boards with clear gilt lettering and decoration have light bumping at corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 254 p., clean and unmarked except for name of former owner on front end page decorated with silhouettes; mildly age-toned paper strong; frontis. ill. with tissue guard and many other ill.; brown boards with clear gilt lettering and decoration have light bumping at corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK orange cloth with cream spine, gilt lettering on spine and gilt embossed device on front, head, tail and corners lightly bumped covers lightly used and faded at edges, otherwise clean internally. Please contact me for further information or photographs if required.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. No date circa 1907. Green cloth with gilt decorations and title. Slight bump to corners. Gilt to top edge. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. Frontis portrait plate of Lamb. 336 pages including. Clean and tight. Size: 3.75" By 5.5" Tall.

xxii, 294 / xi, 254 pagestrimmed paper on u; both volumes with engraved frontispices under tissue-guards, many illustrations in the text and on plates. - Gilt-decorated and -titled brown half-morocco bindings over 5 raised bands (signed 'Douglas & Foulis[,] Edinburgh') with brown-cloth panels, leather corners and ocre-marbled endpapers, topedges gilt; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 11 x 4 cm; ca. 1 kg.). *** [FRÜHLINGSVERKAUF-Endspurt, noch bis Montag den 25.05.2026 / Ultimate SPRING-SALE, only until Monday May 25th 2026: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 46,50] --- 4th EDITION ('ESSAY. . . '; 1st: 1899) / FIRST EDITION ('LAST ESSAY. . .'); FIRST EDITIONS ILLUSTRATED THUS, LUXURIOUSLY HANDBOUND BY DOUGLAS & FOULIS. - Leather corners minimally rubbed, frontpanel of Vol. '1' slightly sunned; A BEAUTIFUL SET.

A very good two volume set in matching full leather bindings by Bumpus. 8vo. Vol. I. : pp.xii/pp.254 ; Vol. II. : pp.xxii/pp.294. Tan calf with gilt filet border, edges lightly rubbed. Each spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, and leather title; volume number and date labels. All page edges bright gilt. Tan leather turn-ins. Green end papers. Engraved armorial bookplate to the verso of each front board for "Sir Gervase Beckett Baronet" and signed with the initials: "W.P.B." Binder's stamp to the verso of each front endpaper: "J & E Bumpus Ltd. 380 Oxford Street W." Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** "Sir William Gervase Beckett, 1st Baronet (born William Gervase Beckett-Denison; 14 January 1866 24 August 1937) was a British banker and Conservative politician. He married Mabel Theresa Duncombe (18771913) and they had four daughters, one of whom married Anthony Eden, a British Prime Minister. His wife died in 1913 and he married again so, at the age of 52 years, he had a son." - See WPB Bookplates *** The company J. & E. Bumpus of Oxford Street in London, Booksellers to Queen Victoria, was a notable publisher of personal bookplates. Many of their designs from 1896 to about 1928 were engraved at the lower margin with the initials of William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938), a New Zealander by birth, who was the Manager of Bumpus's shop. Many designs of bookplates dated up to and including 1908 were signed ' W.P.B.'. By adding his initials to some 600 bookplates, he claimed the design when, in fact, most of them were designed by at least five skilled engravers: John Augustus Charles Harrison (1872-1954), Robert Osmond (1874-1959), Charles Brooke Bird (1856-1916), John Edward Syson (1856-1929) and George Ernest Vize (1865-1943). Barrett's job was to persuade clients to order a bookplate to be engraved and then printed by Bumpus, so he was a salesman." - See WPB Bookplates.