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18355756London: Edward Moxon 1835. Bound in Full Calf by Charles Lewis. These three volumes are George Daniel's custom bound copies of Lamb's prose works. George Daniel was a famous collector of Elizabethan books including Shakespeare folios. These volumes measure approximately 7.75" x 5" with 356 340 and 295 numbered pages respectively.<br /> <br /> Finely bound in full calf by Charles Lewis the renowned London bookbinder. Leather bookplate of famous Samuel Johnson collector R. B. Adam. All edges gilt. With marbled endsheets.<br /> <br /> The volumes are in very good condition. Minor wear and staining to the leather bindings. Vol I has a cracked front hinge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Volume I likely signed by George Daniel - Esquire of Canonbury. Newspaper clippings affixed to front endpapers. Volume II with a signed letter from the poet Bernard Barton who was a close friend of Charles Lamb. Each volume has a bookplate from R. B. Adam on the front pastedown who was a famous Buffalo rare book collector. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Edward Moxon unknown
1816D16976London: Henry Colburn 1816. Hardcover. Good. Three volumes. First Edition; a rare set in the original boards spines quite worn with pages uncut. Housed in a modern slipcase. Complete with the half-titles as called for. Lambs notorious fictionalized account of her affair with Byron was published anonymously with Byron intended as Glenarvon Lord Ruthven and Lamb as Calantha Lady Avondale. <br/><br/> Henry Colburn hardcover books
182894790Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. First American editions and the true first complete edition of the second series of essays the second series wasn't published in England until 1833 as The Last Essays of Elia. Two volumes. 12mos. Linen and original printed glazed papercovered boards with paper spine labels. Each volume bears on the front pastedown the bookplate of James Fenimore Cooper Jr. grandson of the American author. Laid in are an old bookseller's description and a letter dated 1916 to Mrs. James Fenimore Cooper Jr. sending the books along and discussing some of the bibliographical niceties. Front joint professionally and neatly repaired and the spine label partly perished on First Series small stains on the boards chip on the unprinted front fly in Second Series. Still a nice set in the uncommon original boards in better condition than one might reasonably expect of these famous autobiographical essays and with an interesting association. In 1820 Lamb invented the pseudonym Elia for his first essay about the work place of his brother by taking the name of a clerk no longer employed there. The pseudonym stuck however and it allowed Lamb to develop a persona with which he examined a variety of subjects with his celebrated humor and style. Probably Lamb's best work though he is also remembered for his children's versions of Shakespeare and Homer which he wrote with his sister Mary who became his charge after her bout with insanity in 1796 when she killed their mother. Carey, Lea, and Carey hardcover
1802100380London: Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson 1802. First edition. 8vo. Uncut in publisher's pink boards; fine in a custom green cloth chemise Fine first edition in boards of Lambs first play a presentation copy from Fanny Holcroft to fellow author Catherine Hutton. Holcroft 1780-1844 a translator and novelist and friend of Charles and Mary Lamb was the author of the anti-slavery poem The Negro and such novels as Fortitude and Frailty and The Wife and the Lover. Her father was the dramatist and radical Thomas Holcroft 1745-1809 who published several of her translations in his Theatrical Recorder. Catherine Hutton 17561846 was a novelist The Miser Married The Welsh Mountaineer Oakwood Hall and prolific letter-writer.A letter from T. Harral editor of the periodical La Belle Assemblée to Catherine Hutton May 20 1827 records a gift of a Lamb title presumably the present volume: "Miss Holcroft has given me a little volume for you the production of a particular friend of hers Mr. Charles Lamb whom you will probably recollect as the author of some admirable paper signed 'Elia' in the London Magazine " Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century: Letters of Catherine Hutton 1891 pp. 194-5.Following the blank-verse tragedy John Woodvil which was rejected by Drury Lane and never performed are several short works and the poem Helen Mary Lambs first appearance in print.PROVENANCE: Catherine Hutton contemporary presentation inscription from Fanny Holcroft on title-page; Robert S Pirie book-plateREFERENCE: Roff pp. 47-52 Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson hardcover
18528889Santiago: Imp. y LitografÃa de J. Rey Romero 1852. Second edition. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 212x153mm. 8¼x6". Santiago de Compostela Imp. y LitografÃa de J. Rey Romero 1852. En 4º menor 212 x 153mm. Frontispicio xviii-101 pp. 1 h. 10 láminas 8 de ellas plegadas. Encuadernación en holandesa de época cubiertas originales ilustradas en papel amarillo. Segunda edición del viaje de Antonio MarÃa de Orleans y MarÃa Fernanda de Borbón a Galicia en 1852 comenzando en Ferrol pasando por La Coruña Santiago Pontevedra MarÃn y Vigo desde donde saldrÃan hacia Lisboa recorriendo el territorio y disfrutando de sus gentes sus paisajes y sus costumbres. Imp. y Litografía de J. Rey Romero hardcover
1814003120London: J Johnson 1814 Bound in later signed 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards aeg 368 pp. 5 plates fine.Magnificent copy quite unlikely to come up at auction again.Rare Book Hub records the last copy at auction in 1945.This copy with some spine fade and touch of wear at tips. J Johnson hardcover
1833311178London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey vol. 1; Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon vol. 2 1833. First edition of the first and First English edition of the second. 2 vols. 8vo. Uncut in publisher's vol. 1 and original cloth-backed boards vol. 2 printed paper spine labels. Light expert restoration to vol. I joints labels chipped. In full red morocco pull-off cases by Riviere & Sons. First edition of the first and First English edition of the second. 2 vols. 8vo. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. The celebrated essays of Charles Lamb 1775-1834 in original condition with distinguished Philadelphia provenance. Grolier English 74; Tinker 1457 & 1458; Ashley III pp. 50 53; Livingston/Roff pp. 149ff 185ff. Provenance: Moncure Biddle armorial bookplate in each volume; his sale Parke-Bernet 30 April 1952 lot 601 with original description laid in Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey (vol. 1); Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon (vol. 2) unknown books
180753689London: Thomas Hodgkins 1807. First Edition. Full leather. Fine. 2 volumes 235pp. 261pp. plus 3pp. of advertisements at the end of volume II. Illustrated with 20 copper-engraved plates all present. First issue with the T. Davison imprint on the verso of the title page in volume I and the Hanway Street address listed in the advertisement at the end of volume II. Bound in handsome late 19th century full blue crushed morocco by Riviere with gilt frames gilt compartments all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. A handsome early 20th century bookplate is present in each volume though both of these at some point became detached from the paste-downs and are laid-in with only mild residue evident on the paste-downs. A few tiny abrasions to the raised bands on the spines but still an about fine set internally clean but for a few faint marginal stains and only the faintest foxing to a few of the plates. Fine. Hardcover. <br /> <br />The publisher Hodgkins was tasked by William Godwin and his wife Mary to adapt Shakespeare's plays for a juvenile audience a job they hired out to Charles and Mary Lamb. Though only Charles is credited on the title pages his sister Mary adapted fourteen of the twenty plays adapted herein all of the comedies. Her work was only credited to her after the seventh edition. <br /> <br />Of the countless editions of Shakespeare this is among the most significant being the first successful attempt to adapt his brilliant complicated stories to a young audience. <br /> <br />A very handsome set in pleasing condition and bound by one of the great 19th century English bookbinders. 53689 <br />$4500.00 <br/><br/> Thomas Hodgkins hardcover
180740066London: Thomas Hodgkins 1807. First edition first issue with the T. Davison imprint on the verso of p. 235 of Volume 1 and the earlier address of Hanway Street on the ads in Volume 2. 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces; 3 pp. of ads at rear of second volume. 2 vols. 12mo. Full crushed blue by Rivière gilt fillet borders spines in 6 compartments richly gilt and lettered gilt dentelles blue marbled endpapers a.e.g. Fine set. First edition first issue with the T. Davison imprint on the verso of p. 235 of Volume 1 and the earlier address of Hanway Street on the ads in Volume 2. 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces; 3 pp. of ads at rear of second volume. 2 vols. 12mo. " . made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author . " Beautiful set of the classic which the Lambs set about writing at the suggestion and encouragement of of William Godwin who hired Thomas Hodgkins to run The Juvenile Library on his behalf. The Lambs' prose adaptations Charles did the tragedies Mary the comedies were written primarily for the benefit of girls for as they state in the Preface "boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book.'<br/><br/>The result was according to the Cambridge History of English Literature "the first book which appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author . " Roff/Livingston pp. 61ff Thomas Hodgkins unknown books
18074086<p>London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library. 1807. First edition first issue. Two volumes. 12mo. 165x100mm. Vol. I. ix i.bl 2 235 1 with T. Davison imprint. 10 engravings. Vol. II. 4 261 3pp. adverts with the Hanway Street address. 10 engravings. Contemporary calf spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and small round black labels numbered in gilt. At head of spine in gilt is the Pelican of Mercy and the motto "Pandite Coelestes Fortae". This is the crest of James Gibson of Ingliston Writer to the Signet whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedowns. Also with the label of Donald and Mary Hyde who formed one of the great libraries of eighteenth-century literature and whose Samuel Johnson collection was donated to the Houghton Library at Harvard. Slight split to the head of joint with upper boards and corners a little bumped. Housed in a custom-made box. Internally very good but with some foxing heavy to a few leaves in volume two. The illustrations although unsigned and unattributed they are almost certainly by the Irish artist William Mulready. An extremely nice copy of the rare first issue in a smart contemporary binding. With Mary providing the adaptations of the comedies and Charles the tragedies the history plays and Roman plays were not adapted Tales from Shakespear was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century and the first to present Shakespeare's plays in a form suitable for children. Its popularity did much to broaden Shakespeare's appeal and ensure the flowering of his Victorian cult. The title page shows Charles Lamb as the sole author Mary's contribution going unacknowledged until the seventh edition in 1838. A strange omission given that the book was published by William Godwin Thomas Hodgkins was employed to run The Juvenile Library whose strong-minded wife must one would imagine have lobbied for Mary's work to have been recognised.</p> London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library. 1807 hardcover
1830WRCLIT57659London: Edward Moxon 1830. vii11501pp. Small octavo. Full olive green straight-grain morocco gilt extra a.e.g. by Tuckett "Binder to the Queen." Pictorial vignette on title. Some occasional modest foxing joints and extremities rubbed with small crack at top of upper joint otherwise a very good copy enclosed in a silk-lined full morocco clamshell box a bit rubbed. First edition of this collection among the first books to appear under Moxon's imprint. A delightful association copy inscribed on the blank prelim: "To Miss E. Hamilton as a parting token of Friendship from Wm. Wordsworth 16th August 1830 Rydal Mount." With the ownership signature in the top margin of the title of "A. Hamilton." It would seem probable that the recipient was the Irish poet Elizabeth Mary Hamilton sister of Wordsworth's close friend mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton. Elizabeth visited Wordsworth in her brother's company during the summer months of that year. Elizabeth Hamilton is recipient of meaningful praise as a poet in O'Donoghue. With the bookplate of Frank Bemis. LIVINGSTON p. 169ff. O'DONOGHUE p. 94. Edward Moxon unknown books
1807168764London: printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library 1807. A child's copy of the first great Shakespeare book for children First edition in a contemporary binding. Charles and Mary Lamb's retellings of Shakespeare's plays for children stand as "the first work for children of British authorship never to have been out of print. Its success established the retelling of classics of English literature to children as a worthy task" Grolier. Shakespeare's stories were adapted for a young audience from at least the 1790s but this work was the first to enjoy a great commercial success establishing "children's Shakespeare" as a subgenre. Though only Charles is credited as the author on the title page the collection was the result of a collaboration with Mary contributing fourteen adaptations and Charles the remaining six. The Tales are beautifully illustrated with engravings generally attributed to the Irish painter William Mulready 1786-1863. This was the copy of Angoulême Moira Forbes 1796-1810 the fourth son of George Forbes 6th Earl of Ganard with both title pages inscribed with his name and the date 1807. Angoulême Moira was 11 at the time and it seems likely that he received the books as a gift; the confident handwriting suggests that they were inscribed on his behalf. On the front pastedown of volume II is the later inscription of another member of the family one C. S. Forbes. This copy has Wise's points of first issue with the imprint of the printer T. Davison on the verso of p. 235 in volume and with the Hanway Street address in the final adverts. 2 vols duodecimo 160 x 99 mm. With 20 engraved plates. Contemporary black straight-grain half roan smooth spines divided by gilt fillets and lettered in gilt marbled sides and edges vol. II only retaining red silk bookmarker loosely inserted. Bound without last leaf of advertisements in vol. II. Shelf wear to board edges front inner hinge of vol. II partially cracked at foot the binding firm light foxing and marks to endpapers and occasionally to contents else clean. A very good set. Ashley III pp. 42-3; Grolier Children's 100 24. unknown
1885320703Edinburgh: William Paterson 1885. Extra-illustrated. 2 vols. 4to. Blue morocco gilt with Cosway style miniature on the front pastedown of each volume "designed and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London. Extra-illustrated. 2 vols. 4to. The miniature portraits are of Charles Lamb in Volume One and of Mary Lamb in Volume Two Last Essays. William Paterson unknown
1899192038London: Macmillan & Co. 1899-1900. A different pictorial onlay on each volume First collected Ainger edition one of 675 sets this very ornately bound in the so-called "Kelliegram" style. The front board of all 12 volumes is features a scene from Lamb's work executed with multicolour leather onlays heightened with paintwork detail. The much-imitated "Kelliegram" binding style was one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family's bindery was an established part of the London trade. It was founded in 1770 by John Kellie as the name was then spelled and carried on by successive family members into the 1930s. The leading binderies of the early 20th centuries of which Birdsall was one of the largest provincial ones adopted this style. Alfred Ainger 1837-1904 was a foremost authority on Lamb. Livingston notes that this edition saw "further considerable additions" to the letters p. 278. 12 vols octavo 225 x 150 mm. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard to the Life. Finely bound in near-contemporary red crushed morocco by Birdsall spines with two raised bands lettered and decorated with floral pattern in gilt single gilt fillet to boards each front board with a different onlaid rectangular panel illustrating a scene from Lamb's work each executed in multicoloured morocco and onlays some painted gilt inner dentelles red silk endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Housed in custom red cloth slipcases. A fine set. Luther S. Livingston A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb 1903. hardcover
