THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. / THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA. - 2 Volumes; with an Introduction by Augustine Birrell and Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. - BIBLIOPHILE EDITION. [Essay]

LAMB, Charles (Poet) / Augustine Birrell (Introduction) / Charles E. Brock (Illustration):

Published by London, Dent and Co., Aldine House / New York, Scribner’s Sons, 1902.

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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.). *** [Letztmalig verlängerter, nochmals erweiterter SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF (bis Montag, den 29.09.2025) / Ultimately extended SUMMER-END-SALE (until Monday, September 29, 2025): um über 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 50%; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 85,-] --- 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.

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• Title: THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. / THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA. - 2 Volumes; with an Introduction by Augustine Birrell and Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. - BIBLIOPHILE EDITION. [Essay]
• Publisher: London, Dent and Co., Aldine House / New York, Scribner s Sons, 1902.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • 13) English Books: inscribed / 19th century / e...