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180912212London: Tabart and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1809. Second Edition. Hardcover. The original boards are very soiled and worn at the corners. The spine is chipped at the ends and starting to split at the top front and bottom rear. All plates are present. The interior is very good with minimal foxing. Owner's inscription dated 1823 inside the front cover. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Tabart and Co. hardcover
1823369640London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1823. First edition first issue with publisher's Fleet Street address. 4 341 pp. 8vo. Full red morocco gilt gilt-tooled dentelles by Morrell London. Clean fine. In custom slipcase and chemise. First edition first issue with publisher's Fleet Street address. 4 341 pp. 8vo. Tinker 1457 Printed for Taylor and Hessey unknown
1816855B6London : Henry Colburn 1816. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". None. A three volume set of the third edition of Glenvaron. Third edition copies published in the same year as the first edition. Complete in the three volumes. Glenarvon was Lady Caroline Lamb's first novel and created a sensation when in was published. Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist best known for this novel. With all three engraved title pages but no half title pages and no advert page. Collated. With a bookplate for John Rutherford to each front pastedown. In half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally smart with some rubbing to the spines more to the head and tails. Some rubbing to the joints and fading to the boards. With a bookplate for John Rutherford to each front pastedown. Pencil inscription to the title page of vol. 1. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good Henry Colburn hardcover
1895083895Dundee Scotland: George Petrie 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. William Gibb. Large Paper edition signed number 110 of 155 13kg. "The illustrations are from drawings made by William Gibb and reproduced under his superintendence". Illustrations including double page of Crawfords Plan of Dundee 1776 and Government Survey Plan of Dundee 1858. 35 page introduction plus 59 full page illustrations with descriptions. Half bound Morocco on pebbled cloth boards. Gilt titling to front board and 5 banded spine. Gilt top edge rubbing and bumping to edges and corners. navy and gilt endpapers publication issue page with authors signature small title page which has light foxing. Title page again with some foxing and small corner of page missing. Frontispiece of Charter Dedication page preface contents list of illustrations introduction 35pp 59 full page illustrations with descriptions index to rear. Some discoloration round edges and a light stain to bottom corner of pages. This is a very heavy book13kg and carriage outside UK on request. <br/> <br/> George Petrie hardcover
1899896T18London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899-1900. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A smart complete set of this limited edition de luxe series of works by Charles Lamb with the author's life. Complete in twelve volumes. Edition de Luxe. Limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies. The life and works of Charles Lamb an English essayist poet and antiquarian who was at the centre of a major literary circle in England with friends including: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey and William Wordsworth. Lamb has been referred to by Edward Verrall Lucas one of his principal biographers as "the most lovable figure in English literature". Edited with an introduction and notes to the texts by Alfred Ainger an English biographer and critic. This set includes: Volume I The Essays of Elia 1899. Volume II The Last Essays of Elia 1899. Volume III Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays Volume I 1899. Volume IV Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays Volume I 1899. Volume V Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse Volume I 1899. Volume VI Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse Volume I 1899. Volume VII Tales from Shakespeare 1900. Co-authored with his sister Mary Lamb an English writer. Volume VIII Charles Lamb 1900. Written by Alfred Ainger. With a portrait frontispiece collated complete. Volume IX The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume I 1900. Volume X The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume II 1900. Volume XI The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume III 1900. Volume XII The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume IV 1900. Bound by Pretoria. In the original half brown calf binding with cloth boards. Externally smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages with the odd handling mark. Bound by Pretoria. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
180956796<p>AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WARS - IRISH SOLDIER'S IMPORTANT FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT<br />first edition tall 8vo. iv xxiv 5-294 293-438pp. complete 1 plate letterpress order of battle list of subscribers on p.ix-xxix contemporary tree calf smooth spine paneled by gilt fillets and with red morocco label gilt free endpapers sometime neatly removed contemporary small outline drawing of a boat on both paste-down endpapers contemporary owner's name at head of slightly dusty title page crossed out headband of spine just a trifle chipped and joints slightly cracked at head but overall a very good and handsome copy. Despite the minor flaws a much better copy than is usually encountered.<br />SABIN 38724 HOWES U.S.iana L36<br />One of the best personal narratives by a soldier in the American Revolution. Lamb Dublin 1756–1830 soldier and writer after somehow receiving an excellent education in English composition "at the age of seventeen he entered the army joining the 9th regiment of foot at Waterford. He quickly rose to the rank of sergeant and being at times attached to the general hospital acted as a surgeon's mate or even surgeon in emergency situations. In April 1776 Lamb . with his regiment . sailed for Quebec. For the next seven years he was involved in the American War of Independence about which he later published this detailed personal account" O.D.N.B. He describes many campaigns and his part in them including how after being captured by the Americans on two occasions he escaped and rejoined the British forces. He returned to Dublin in 1784 married and "for the remainder of his life taught at the free school in White Friar's Lane Dublin. He spent his leisure time writing two accounts of his life in North America his <em>Journal</em> of the war and a <em>Memoir of His Own Life</em> 1811 about the characters anecdotes plants and animals of Canada and New England. . He was a keen observer and a careful writer and his books - especially his account of a non-commissioned officer's experience of the American war - have since become an important source for historians of the revolutionary period and of late eighteenth-century warfare" O.D.N.B. His two books were the basis of two fictionalized accounts by Robert Graves.</p> Wilkinson & Courtney hardcover
1895630P26Nethergate: George Petrie 1895. Leather. Very Good/Good. 19" by 14.5". William Gibb. A lavishly illustrated signed limited edition work of Alexander Lamb's 'Dundee' a work on the streets and buildings of Dundee. Very very rare with the original wrapper. Signed by the author to the edition page. Held in a full morocco dustwrapper. A limited edition work being numbered two-hundred and two of the small paper editions. There were sixteen copies printed on Japanese paper and one-hundred and fifty-five copies on large paper editions. 'Dundee' is an extensive work on the quaint buildings streets and closes in Dundee all of which had been demolished in the 1870s onwards. Queen Victoria was presented with a lavish copy of this work. With a coloured frontispiece two coloured maps two plates showing keys to the maps and fifty-three plates some plates showing two illustrations. Written by Alexander Crawford Lamb. Lamb was a Scottish art collector antiquarian and writer who collected a considered amount of paintings literary works china and furniture throughout his life. He is best known for his work for which he received great acclaim and praise. Illustrated by William Gibb. Gibb studied art at Edinburgh under Robert Scott Lander before moving to London and becoming an apprentice to the publishing and lithographic firm 'Day and Sons'. Collated complete. In the original half morocco binding with pebbled cloth to the boards. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Dustwrapper with slight edgewear with a closed tear to the tail of the spine. Marking to the wraps of the dustwrapper with light patches of loss. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting to the edges of pages and to the reverse of the plates. Very Good George Petrie hardcover
1897790P46London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897-1904. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. A Bumpus bound collection of the works of Charles Lamb a comprehensive set of his best known and most popular works. In a signed Bumpus binding.In twelve volumes.A collection of the works of Charles Lamb.Charles Lamb was a popular antiquarian and essayist known for his work 'Tales from Shakespeare' which he co-authored with his sister.'Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse' 'Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays' 'Tales From Shakespeare' 'The Essays of Elia' and 'Letters Volumes I and II'.With introductions and notes by Alfred Ainger. In a full calf Bumpus binding. Externally smart with a few light marks and spots to the boards and spines. Light fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few light spots mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed Macmillan and Co. Limited hardcover
1823177057London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon 1823. 1st Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 341p; 283p. FINE BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN. A set of two hardcover books bound in full golden-brown calf with gilt-decorated spines gilt dentelles gilt foredges and marbled endpapers. Very good condition overall! Edges of spines barely rubbed; the gilt detailing remains shiny and unmarred. In the ELIA volume there are some tiny ink spots in the margin of page 7 and pages 285-290 have tiny closed tears which have been delicately repaired. Tiny orange smudge on the side foredge. Light tanning along the edges of the free endpapers. Both volumes' pages have mild age-spotting and tanning but are otherwise unmarked and securely bound. Both volumes have two attached ribbon page markers. This copy of ELIA is the rare first edition from 1923. THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA is the first British edition from 1833; an unauthorized American edition was published earlier. Thomas Davison, for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon unknown
18356796London: Taylor and Hessey and Edward Moxon 1835. First edition and second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes octavo. vi 341; xiii 295 pp. complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt rule to boards and gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Teal coated endpapers. Small twentieth-century bookseller's ticket to lower flyleaves. A Fine fresh set in a beautiful binding.<br /> <br /> First edition second issue of Essays of Elia with both the Fleet Street and Waterloo addresses in the imprint bound without the terminal publisher's ads. Second edition of Last Essays of Elia which was first published by Edward Moxon in 1833.<br /> <br /> Lamb's accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine. Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon unknown
1823LCL001London: John Murray 1823 Three volumes bound into two. First edition first printing. Finely bound in quarter brown calf with marbled boards and spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Fine set with a tiny puncture and a creased lower corner to title page in Vol. I and ownership signatures in pencil to title pages. Overall a gorgeous and clean set. Lady Caroline Lamb's third novel Ada Reis follows the roguish title character who is sold into bondage at a young age and grows to be a hard-drinking and murderous young man. He later receives a prophecy from a sorcerer that he "shall be king in another land" and his illegitimate daughter Fiormonda "shall wear an imperial crown." In Lamb's introduction she writes that the book is the "simple narrative of what occurred to Ada Reis and his daughter that those who read may place the awful record in their hearts and learn to worship God and to be humble in themselves." The narrative is fictionally presented as a real manuscript that has been translated into English from Arabic Spanish and Inga. Lady Caroline Lamb 1785 - 1828 was a novelist best known for her debut work Glenarvon 1816 which caused a sensation when it was published. The book featured a title character based heavily on Lord Byron with whom Lamb had an intense affair with between March and August of 1812. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. London: John Murray hardcover
1890248002New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1890. Part of the Putnam Knickerbocker Nugget series. Ilus. 2 vols. 12mo. Original blue gilt stamped cloth and blure boards. In blue cloth slipcase. Part of the Putnam Knickerbocker Nugget series. Ilus. 2 vols. 12mo. From the library of Sara Delano Roosevelt the mother of FDR with her signature and date of 1891 on top right of both title-pages. Mrs. Roosevelt was a strong-willed woman who took charge of every aspect of raising her only son and she would prove to be a dominating force throughout FDR's life until her death in 1941 just months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the year this book was signed young FDR and his mother began a series of trips to the Rineland spa of Bad Nauheim Germany seeking treatment of his father's ailing heart. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
1900012212NY: The Lamb Publishing Company 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12 volume set complete uniformly bound in autumn leaf leather with identical gilt front and rear covers ruled dentelles more gilt to spine five raised bands gte sides untrimmed. Binding unsigned. Limited to 130 sets for subscribers only this set numbered 177 in all volumes. Volume 1 notes that this set was printed for A. Jaekel with his name artistically painted in water color on the limitation page. Frontispieces are mezzotints by S. Arlent-Edwards with printed tissue guards in each volume 62 plates in all. Near fine set untrimmed sides a bit tanned/ browned. Internals fine. Covers quite nice a few very minor abrasions here and there. The Lamb Publishing Company hardcover
1811D20005London: J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library 41 Skinner Street 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. xii 176 4pp. ads and a final blank. Contemporary speckled calf gilt ruled. Engraved frontispiece and a second engraved plate. Front board split loosening small losses along the spine occasional pale spots but still a nice copy of this fragile item with excellent provenance: bookplate of Estelle Doheny and tiny ownership inscriptions dated 1812. The volume contains pieces by Charles and Mary Lamb including the one signed M.L. changed in later editions to C.L. An old pencil note at the back notes the scarcity of the item and suggests "the plates have recently been attributed to Blake." <br /> <br/><br/> J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library 41, Skinner Street hardcover
1811LTH19-F-4London: M J Godwin 1811. First edition. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". None. A scarce early first edition of this book of poetry for schools. By Charles and Mary Lamb published under the pseudonym W. F. Mylius. With two engravings: a frontispiece and one further plate both illustrative of the plate. The work contains 22 items from Poetry for Children 1809 and selections from other authors as well as a new poem "A Birth-Day Thought". In the earlier editions such as this A Birth-Day Thought is signed M. L. changed to C. L. in later editions. It is rare to find this book in this conditions as copies are usually read to the point of disintegration. According to Thomson's Bibliography Lamb in a letter to Robert Lloyd from 1809 attributes the poem The Beggar Man to his brother John. Charles Lamb 10 February 1775 27 December 1834 was an English essayist best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare which he produced with his sister Mary Lamb 17641847. With two sets of publisher's catalogues to rear. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to recto and verso of front free endpaper. With two leaves missing: pages 131-134. In original sheep binding. Externally worn bumped and rubbed with front board tender and rear board held by cords only. Cracking and slight loss to leather of backstrip. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages 131-134 missing. Slight marks to front and rear pastedowns otherwise generally bright with the odd spot and mark. Good M J Godwin hardcover
190024505New York: Lamb Publishing Co 1900. India House Edition limited to 130 numbered sets for subscribers only 8vo 12 volumes; contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards gilt decorated spines t.e.g.; vignette titles printed in red and black 62 engraved plates; spines darkened else very good and sound. Edited with an introduction notes and a Life by Alfred Aingier. Lamb Publishing Co unknown
1874462662Wilbraham Massachusetts 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Autograph Album 6 ½†x 4â€. Contemporary morocco over boards with a decorative design stamped in gold on the front cover and spine white moiré endpapers all edges gilt. The boards are rubbed with wear to the edges and corners front joint is partially split head and tail of spine back bumped and torn about very good. Contains over fifty manuscript entries most dating from 1874-77 when the album’s owner “Emma†was a student at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham Massachusetts. Also included are later entries dating up through the early 1880s and two or three final entries from the 1920s. Most of the entries are by fellow students and teachers at Wesleyan including a terrific 1877 pen & ink sketch by Emma’s fine arts teacher Watson F. Lamb. The sketch depicts the campus and various whimsical scenes including women in silhouette playing croquet and a portrait of a young man the artist in uniform with a bat and ball in hand titled: “Wesleyan B.B. No. 1â€. The album also features an accomplished calligraphic sketch of a bird and other decorated autograph entries. An attractive album dating from the decade when Wesleyan was the primary center of Methodist education in New England. hardcover
1816243095London: Henry Colburn 1816. First edition. ii 295; ii 390; ii 322 pp. lacking half-titles. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spine of vol. I defective missing top half front hinge off; vol II neatly rebacked; endsheets of all three volumes slightly spotted. A good copy however with a contemporary provenance: from the libraries of Dowager Lady Vernon with her signature dated 1816 on each title page; and Edward Lord Suffield with his bookplate both likely acquaintances of Lamb and Byron. First edition. ii 295; ii 390; ii 322 pp. lacking half-titles. 3 vols. 12mo. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our protagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon i.e. Byron her helplessness is described thus:<br /> <br /> "The eye of the rattle-snake it has been said once fixed upon its victim overpowers it with terror and alarm: the bird thus charmed dares not attempt its escape; it sings its last sweet lay; flutters its little pinions in the air then falls like a shot before its destroyer unable to fly from his fascination. Calantha bowed therefore with the rest pierced to the heart at once by the maddening power that destroys alike the high and low; but she liked not the wily turn of his eye the contemptuous sneer of his curling lip the soft passionless tones of his voice . " Wolff 3938 lacks half-titles Henry Colburn unknown
1899124217Macmillan 1899-1900. Leather. Very Good. Three quarter red leather bound by Riviere & Sons edition de luxe series of works by Charles Lamb with the author's life. Complete in twelve volumes. Gorgeous gilt decorated 5 hub spines top edges gilt. Tight bindings no marks. Books do exhibit some foxing to pages. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Macmillan hardcover