Preface by B W Procter (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. First Printing of the First US Edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Inner hinges are sound. A bit of bubbling to cloth covers. Extremities lightly rubbed. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with engraving of Lamb. A biography and literary memoir. From the front matter: "In my seventy-seventh year, I have been invited to place on record my recollections of Charles Lamb. Assuredly, I knew him more intimately than any other existing person, during the last seventeen or eighteen years of his life." Includes a 30 page appendix with other authors' comments on Lamb [William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Foster, Talfourd, etc]. Also reprinted is Lamb's contribution to the periodical, Athenaeum from January, 1835. Original brown cloth. The spine is lettered in gold and the front cover is decorated with Lamb's initials, also in gold. Top edge gilt. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 304pp.