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189571639London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. Full Leather. Very Good - minus. 18 x 12 cm. 12mo. Five volume set uniformly bound into dark green leather by Zaehnsdorf. Red leather spine labels and gilt spine decorations. Marble endpapers. TEG. Letters of Charles lamb is in two volumes 343pp 375pp 1897. Spines are a bit faded and scuffed. Outer hinges of "Mrs Leicester's School" is starting. Macmillan and Co. unknown
18998794East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8 1/2'' x 5 3/4''. 175pp. Body copy set in Old Style Antique. Printed in two colors on Kelmscott handmade paper with initial letters hand drawn. This edition is limited to 970 copies this is copy number 295. Signed by Elbert Hubbard. Bound in full suede with a cover design by W. W. Denslow. The hand-drawn and illumined initial letters were also designed by Denslow. Some spotting to suede covers. Decorated silk paste-downs. The Roycrofters hardcover
1893223466Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1893. Illustrated. 4 vols. 12mo. Three-quarter calf marbled boards contrasting spine labels t.e.g. About Fine. Illustrated. 4 vols. 12mo. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown
181821262London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier Marchant printer; Reynell printer 1818. First Collected edition. 2 vols. Sm. 12mo. Contemporary half calf marbled boards red morocco labels. Joints cracked rubbed some chipping to head of spines and labels light browning of spotting of interiors. First Collected edition. 2 vols. Sm. 12mo. Includes some of Mary Lamb's poems. NCBEL 3:1224 Printed for C. and J. Ollier [Marchant printer; Reynell, printer] unknown
1848424555Bath N.Y.: R.L. Underhill & Co 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. American edition. 12mo. 165 2pp. Woodcut illustrations handcolored. Leather-grained paper over boards with morocco spine label gilt. Crown chipped to just below the top of the text block modest foxing overall general wear about very good. R.L. Underhill & Co hardcover
1877014706A.S. Barnes. Two Volumes. 1877 and 1880. Publisher's original 3/4 tan morocco over marbled boards. Page edges and end papers also completely and brilliantly marbled. and original bright gilt piping with five raised bands on the spine. Ornate gilt titles and designs on spine. Cover extremely worn and boards detatched but present. Inside bright and Fine. More than 150 illustrations--portraits maps buildings landscapes etc-- in each volume. xiii 786 pages and xv 820 pages. At the time of its publication this work was reputed to be "the most complete history ever published of any city in the world." Kunitz and Haycraft p. 447. Nestler 848. Additional shipping required for this set. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1877. A.S. Barnes hardcover
1883015198Funk & Wagnalls. Bound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering and finance metaphors stamped into front blind-stamped decorative borders to front and back all edges gilt Numerous wood engraved portraits and views. Edge wear corners bumped ex libris stamps on first few pages library plate tipped in on copyright page. Spine has library number. Internally bright and fresh other than as mentioned. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1883. Funk & Wagnalls hardcover
1885237182Salt Lake City Utah: Printed for the Author by the Salt Lake Herald Job Department 1885. First edition. 125 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Orange wrappers. Very good. First edition. 125 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Falke 4705 Printed for the Author by the Salt Lake Herald Job Department unknown
1876278755Boston MA: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Half Leather. Very Good binding. .With a Sketch of Hogarth’s Life and Career by William Makepeace Thackeray and an Essay on the Genius and Character of Hogarth by Charles Lamb. Complete with heliotyped plates. Bound in three-quarter morocco. Some repair to the moire endpapers and loss to the first blank page. A handsome volume. Very Good binding. James R. Osgood and Company unknown
1823AQ35118London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1823. 4 341pp 1. Without half-title. Later blind-ruled half-calf marbled paper boards with contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers A.E.G. Very lightly rubbed and scored. With a tipped-in contemporary newspaper clipping announcing the work's publication to verso of FFEP. Browning and spotting to terminal and initial leaves. The first edition second issue of the collected essays of Charles Lamb 1775-1834; the essays had initially appeared in John Scott's London Magazine between 1820 and 1825 under the pseudonym 'Elia'. Lamb's sketches drawing in a semi-autobiographical manner from his own experiences and correspondence utilised a conversational and personable dramatic persona allowing for a more naive and whimsical take on contemporary events. A second series Last Essays of Elia appeared in 1833. . First edition second issue. 8vo. Printed for Taylor and Hessey hardcover
1821AQ28703London: Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co. 1821. 4 viii 1 10-180pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title page scattered spotting. William St. Clair's copy with his characteristic pencilled ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. An early piece of juvenilia principally by Mary Lamb with contributions by her brother Charles centred upon the newly arrived pupils during their first evening in attendance of Mrs. Leicester's school for girls during which they together relate the circumstances of their upbringings and difficulties had with their immediate families. The stories are at least partially autobiographical reflecting Mary's troubled childhood and history of mental instability. First printed in 1809 the book proved remarkably popular reaching 11 editions by 1836. William St. Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. . Eighth edition. 12mo. Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co. hardcover
1833AQ24072London: Printed for Baldwin and Cradock 1833. viii 287pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary original red roan-backed marbled boards lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. A late Regency edition of a remarkably popular anthology of prose for young children with contributions by Irish author of female-emancipatory fiction Margaret King Moore 1773-1835. The first collection was published in in 1813 by The Juvenile Library the London endeavour of William Godwin widower of Moore's governess-mentor Mary Wollstonecraft. The book's popularity resulted in Moore providing original material for subsequent editions the last and fourteenth of which appeared in 1868. . Eleventh edition. 8vo. Printed for Baldwin and Cradock hardcover
1865FB231 /5B<p>Tan leather binding with raised banding green title plate gilt lettering and ornate decoration on the spine. Gilt line edging on boards with Marlborough college emblem on the front board.</p><p>Inscription reads - C J Connell from his house on leaving Marborough Easter 1868</p> Edward Moxton. hardcover
1883031351New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1883. First Edition Thus . No Binding. Fine. Vii 501 Pp. Islington Edition #5 Of 250 Copies With Signature Of Publishers Dated Nov. 5 1883. Never Bound Lacking Covers Pages Securely Held By Cords Etc. Ready For Binding. Pages Fine No Wear No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown
18869032180London: John Slark 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited with notes by Fitzgerald. "The Temple Edition." Illustrated frontispiece portrait in first volume. Bound in half leather with marbled boards and endpapers spines stamped in gilt. Text blocks are uniformly fine. All volumes have light rubbing at corner and head and heel of spine. One corner of one volume is worn through cloth. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. <br/><br/> John Slark hardcover
1876280230London : E. Moxon 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copies only in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 6 volumes : portrait ; 19 cm. Subject; Lamb Charles 1775-1834. London : E. Moxon hardcover
1846936Q13London: John Weale 1846 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 15" by 11". Various . The first edition of Edward Buckton Lamb's study of ancient domestic architecture with twenty illustrative plates to accompany. The first edition.Bound in the publisher's red cloth rebacked. A wonderfully illustrated work with twenty plates depicting fine establishments in Waldon Sussex the Isle of Wight Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Lincoln and Peterborough.Collated complete. Written by Edward Buckton Lamb a British architect who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1824. He was known for his explorative innovative designs breaking with convention being labelled a "Rogue Gothic Revivalist". This work shares Buckton Lamb's views on ancient domestic architecture with some observations on the application of this architecture to the composition of modern edifices. With the illustrations selected from original drawings in the collection of the late Sir William Burrell.Bookplate of Phil Shirley and another of English antiquarian and archivist Francis W. Steer. Loosely inserted is a leaf of 'Designs for Agricultural Labourers Cottages' dated 1873 by John Birch. Bound in the publisher's red cloth rebacked with the original spine laid down. Externally generally smart with a few marks to cloth and light bumping to the extremities. Bookplates to front paste down. internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting including a few to plates. Very Good John Weale hardcover
1893463696London: J.M. Dent 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition ordinary issue in cream cloth. Title page front cover ornament and 74 grotesques by Beardsley 29 of them new to this volume. Slight wear on spine ends a little puckering on the cloth very good or a little better. The second book in the "Bon-Mots" series. MSL 19. J.M. Dent hardcover
1848224068London Edward Moxon 1848. 1848. First edition. 8vo. Half titles. 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. 2 volumes. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. London, Edward Moxon, 1848. hardcover
1892016151London: The Leadenhall Press. Facsimile of the First Edition. No. 90 of 112 signed by Andrew Tuer the Printer. Natural toned leather with gilt spine titles and decoration light wear to the hinges and book corners. Marbled end papers front secondary end papers have gift inscriptions. R9 . Very Good. Leather Bound. Facsimile. 1892. The Leadenhall Press hardcover