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1796130600London: printed for the author; and published by Messrs. G. G. and J. Robinsons; J. Debrett; and Murray and Highley 1796. Shakespeare fan fiction First edition. The author James White 1775-1820 was a friend of Charles Lamb from their schooldays at Christ's Hospital. He so enjoyed Shakespeare's Henry IV to which he was introduced by Lamb that he developed an impersonation of Falstaff good enough to rouse the jealousy of professional actors and for which according to another school fellow John Mathew Gutch he was usually addressed by his friends as "Sir John". Original Letters was published the same year as the production at Drury Lane of William Ireland's Shakespeare forgery Vortigern and the preface to White's book has a dedication in black letter to "Master Samuel Irelaunde" the forger's father which was probably written by Lamb. Lamb puffed the book whenever he could inducing Coleridge to notice it in the Critical Review for June 1797 and writing his own appreciation to the Examiner for 5 Sept. 1819. He is also said to have purchased every available second-hand copy to present to his friends. The book was reissued the following year with a cancel title. Duodecimo pp. 2 v-xxiv 123 1. Engraved frontispiece by W. Leney. Without the blank A1. Early 19th-century half calf spine gilt in compartments black morocco labels marbled sides drab endpapers top edge gilt. Joints cracked at head but holding a few scattered spots a very good copy. ESTC T71574. unknown
19018London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1909. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Signed deluxe edition. Publisher's original white buckram with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. All four original red cloth ties present as called for. Illustrated with 13 full page colour plates two full page black and white illustrations 20 chapter headings and 14 tail-pieces by Arthur Rackham. An excellent example the binding square and firm with just a little light marking to the cloth. The contents with some patina to the vellum endpapers the bookplate of Amy Beatrice Huntington to the blank reverse of the front endpaper and another of H. C. Drayton opposite are otherwise fine clean and bright throughout. Housed in a bespoke blue cloth solander case. Limited to 750 copies of which this is hand numbered 178 and signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. This deluxe edition contains an additional colour plate not included in the trade issue. A beautifully illustrated collection of 20 comedies and tragedies retold in the prose of Charles and Mary Lamb aimed at making Shakespeare accessible to younger readers. Comprising The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; or What you Will; Timon of Athens; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet Prince of Denmark; Othello; and Pericles Prince of Tyre. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1909 hardcover
183317956London: Taylor and Hessey & Edward Moxon 1833. First edition. leather_bound. Full late nineteenth century red morocco gilt. Aeg. Fine in fine matching red cloth slipcase. 2 vols. 341 & 283 pages. First edition first issue; Fleet Street address in Vol. I and half title Vol.II. A large portion of Lamb's biography can be taken from the Essays. "His subject was humanity at large but in himself he saw its microcosm. Using his own impressions and recollections as a text for his work he wrote without a trace of egotism or self-assertion."see: CHEL p.195. ASHLEY III pp.50 53. GROLIER English 74. Both volumes lack adverts. Exceptional copies double gilt cover border panels raised bands spine panels decorated with gilt floral motifs elaborate inner dentelles blue watered silk endpapers. Taylor and Hessey & Edward Moxon unknown books
190967599One of 750 Copies Signed by the Artist RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. LAMB Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1909. Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the artist of which this is number 304. Quarto. 2 xii 304 pp. Thirteen mounted color plates two full-page illustrations in black and white twenty chapter headings and fourteen tail-pieces. Original white cloth front cover decoratively stamped in gilt front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Rose ribbon ties. Top edge gilt others uncut. Pictorial endpapers lightly marbled. Spine a tad darkened a few tiny soil spots to covers edges browned as usual. With publisher's original note mentioning the extra plate entitled "Puck." Overall a near fine copy. Originally published in 1899 with black-and-white illustrations only: "there is an extra colored plate in this edition not included in the trade edition." Riall 90; see also 32. Latimore & Haskell 33-34; see also 12-13. Jaggard 188. HBS 67599. $1650 J.M. Dent & Co. hardcover books
2011__0415679591Routledge 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 2050 pages. 15.10x9.90x3.30 inches. Routledge paperback
elala5448<p>Dublin: Printed By Wilkinson & Courtney 1809. First Edition. An interesting narrative of the Revolutionary period written by a non-commissioned officer in the Ninth Regiment of Foot. Included are accounts of Lamb's participation in the siege of Quebec and the pursuit of Arnold up the St. Lawrence Burgoyne's expedition of 1777 and the surrender of Saratoga escape and joining with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers participation in the Southern campaigns and surrender with Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. The rest of the journal is devoted to Lamb's subsequent experiences as a prisoner-of-war. In his Bookplates of Leslie Victor Smith 1947 William Colgate suggests that among Canadian bookplate artists "probably no one is more widely recognized for the fine quality of his work than Leslie Victor Smith". Clark I 268. Howes L-36. Lande 505. Sabin 38724. TPL 508. Vlach 443. 8vo. pp. iv xxiv 5-438 i.e. 440. with list of subscribers. letterpress plan after p. 158. contemporary tree calf rebacked & recornered occasional light foxing. engraved bookplate of Frank B. Pidgeon Omemee by Leslie Victor Smith dated 1946. elala5448</p> Dublin: Printed By Wilkinson & Courtney, 1809
051-Do.J. Pinsel in Braun, mit Deckweiß gehöht, mit doppelter schwarzer Tuschlinie umrandet, auf Bütten, rechts unten monogrammiert "B.P.O. F". 13,2 : 14,7 cm. Provenienz: Sammlung R. Peltzer, Köln, Lugt 2231); Sammlung Holtkott, nicht bei Lugt; Sammlung GV, nicht identifiziert, Lugt 1222.
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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
19046493London: J.M. Dent & Co 1904. Fifth edition. Near Fine. Two volumes bound in one small octavo 180 x 105 mm. xxii 294 1 imprint 1 blank; xii 254 1 imprint 1 blank pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations including decorative head and tailpieces all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1905 by Cedric Chivers stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in. Bound in handsome green morocco with decorative gilt floral patterns on the front board encircling a "vellucent" title label. Spine with gilt titles and art nouveau floral pattern. All edges gilt pale green end papers. Spine toned previous owner's gift inscription on the first blank otherwise a fine copy overall.<br /> <br /> Patented in 1898 Chivers's "vellucent" bindings departed from traditional methods of creating hand-painted vellum bindings. The usual approach was to merely bind a book in vellum and then paint on a design but this is prone to rubbing and flaking and such examples are often now found chipped and deteriorated. In the 18th century Chivers's great predecessor Edwards of Halifax painted in reverse on the underside of translucent vellum thereby providing a layer of protection for the design. His technique was not widely copied and almost vanished with his death and it was not until the 1890s that Chivers developed his own similar method for protecting the design underneath the vellum itself - the backing sheet of the vellum was painted which was then covered in vellum which had been shaved to transparency. The vellum was then tooled in gilt on occasion incorporating additional mother-of-pearl and onlays. The books which Chivers thus bound have always been a favorite of collectors and usually still present well the vellum having served its purpose of protecting the design for many decades as Chivers intended. Chivers was also known to have employed a great many craftswomen at his bindery in Portway: "forty women for folding sewing mending and collating work and in addition five more women worked in a separate department to design illuminate and colour vellum for book decoration and to work on embossed leather. These five were Dorothy Carleton Smyth Alice Shepherd Miss J.D. Dunn Muriel Taylor and Agatha Gales" Tidcombe.<br /> <br /> This book brings together Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia first published in 1823 with the subsequent volume Last Essays of Elia issues in 1833. The 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. Near Fine. J.M. Dent & Co unknown
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
190931145<p>This deluxe edition of <em>Tales from Shakespeare</em> by Charles and Mary Lamb is a notable adaptation of Shakespearean drama for younger audiences. The stories maintain much of Shakespeare's original language while simplifying narrative arcs from classics such as <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> <em>Macbeth</em> <em>Hamlet</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>. Produced at the height of the "Golden Age" of British book illustration this edition features thirteen color plates by the renowned artist Arthur Rackham one of which "Puck" was not included in the trade edition of this same work. Published by Dent in London and Dutton in New York this Large Paper version is numbered 542 of 750 and signed by Rackham himself. Quarto 4to single volume. Good condition; cream cloth binding is moderately soiled from handling with only one red ribbon tie still attached hinges that are fragile but still intact illustrated endpapers somewhat discolored but pages are clean and free of foxing browning confined to the very edges of some pages and all illustrations present and well-preserved. Collation: xii 304 pp. Illustrations: 13 full-page color engravings by Arthur Rackham including frontispiece and exclusive "Puck" plate. Edition: Limited Deluxe Edition 542 of 750 signed by Rackham 1909. #31145. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> J.M. Dent & Co, E.P. Dutton & Co. hardcover
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
1823CHL001London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1823 First edition first issue published without the half-title with the publisher's single-line Fleet Street address to the tile page lacking publisher's terminal advertisements. Finely bound in full navy morocco with five raised bands to the spine decorative gilt stamping to the spine bands and compartments spine lettered in gilt boards ruled in gilt all edges gilt elaborate gilt turn-ins maroon coated endpapers. Very good or better with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities a hint of toning to the spine front hinge tender with some wear front hinge repaired bright and fresh pages. A clean copy of the scarce first issue in a lovely morocco binding. Elia is a collection of Lamb's popular essays each of which was originally published in London Magazine. Specifically it includes "The South-Sea House" "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago" "Dream-Children; A Reverie" and "Modern Gallantry" among others. Lamb a long-time clerk for the British East India Company began writing essays under the pseudonym "Elia" which he derived from a former colleague's surname. Lamb wrote in a colloquial and conversational style that made his essays beloved by his Edwardian and Victorian readers. Additionally Lamb included many of his friends and family in his writing loosely disguised by initials and pseudonyms. Mary Lamb Charles' sister and co-author of the popular Tales from Shakespeare 1807 appears as "Cousin Bridget." This first collection of Lamb's essays was complemented with a second volume in 1833 entitled The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published under that Name. Interestingly while the American edition of the first collection published by Carey Lea and Carey in Philadelphia was preceded by this first British edition by five years the American issue of the second collection preceded its British counterpart; less restricted by copyright laws in the United States the American publishers were able to issue both Elia volumes simultaneously in 1828. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey hardcover books
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 books
1108Lancaster and New York: American Physical Society. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the discovery of the "Lamb shift" "Shortly after World War II Lamb began his work to check the accuracy of the predictions of Paul Dirac as they related to the energy levels and spectral lines of hydrogen. Dirac's quantum mechanical theory predicted that the hydrogen atom had two possible energy states with equal energies. Lamb's accurate work using radiofrequency resonance techniques reported in 1947 revealed that there was a minute difference in these energy levels. Small as it was this Lamb shift necessitated a revision of the theory of the interaction of the electron with electromagnetic radiation. For this work Lamb was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics which he shared with another leader of research at Columbia Polykarp Kusch with whom he had performed wartime research in developing microwave radar" .Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists. Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "First measurements of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom the Lamb shift. Nobel prize to W.E. Lamb awarded in 1955 'for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.'" IN: The Physical Review Vol 72 No 3 August 1 1947 pp. 241-243. Lancaster PA. and New York NY: American Physical Society 1947. Quarto original wrappers. Tiny bump to outer edge otherwise fine. Rare in wrappers. American Physical Society paperback books
1823CHL001London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1823 First edition first issue published without the half-title with the publisher's single-line Fleet Street address to the tile page lacking publisher's terminal advertisements. Finely bound in full navy morocco with five raised bands to the spine decorative gilt stamping to the spine bands and compartments spine lettered in gilt boards ruled in gilt all edges gilt elaborate gilt turn-ins maroon coated endpapers. Very good or better with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities a hint of toning to the spine front hinge tender with some wear front hinge repaired bright and fresh pages. A clean copy of the scarce first issue in a lovely morocco binding. Elia is a collection of Lamb's popular essays each of which was originally published in London Magazine. Specifically it includes "The South-Sea House" "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago" "Dream-Children; A Reverie" and "Modern Gallantry" among others. Lamb a long-time clerk for the British East India Company began writing essays under the pseudonym "Elia" which he derived from a former colleague's surname. Lamb wrote in a colloquial and conversational style that made his essays beloved by his Edwardian and Victorian readers. Additionally Lamb included many of his friends and family in his writing loosely disguised by initials and pseudonyms. Mary Lamb Charles' sister and co-author of the popular Tales from Shakespeare 1807 appears as "Cousin Bridget." This first collection of Lamb's essays was complemented with a second volume in 1833 entitled The Last Essays of Elia: Being a Sequel to Essays Published under that Name. Interestingly while the American edition of the first collection published by Carey Lea and Carey in Philadelphia was preceded by this first British edition by five years the American issue of the second collection preceded its British counterpart; less restricted by copyright laws in the United States the American publishers were able to issue both Elia volumes simultaneously in 1828. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey hardcover
70011Boston:: R. H. Hinkley Company no date. Edmonton Edition; No. 68 of 100 sets on Japan Vellum initialed by Daniel Berkeley Updike. 3/4 olive crushed morocco and marbled sides; gilt spines; t.e.g. Armorial bookplate. A fine set. 8vo. R. H. Hinkley Company, hardcover
1108Lancaster and New York: American Physical Society. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the discovery of the "Lamb shift" "Shortly after World War II Lamb began his work to check the accuracy of the predictions of Paul Dirac as they related to the energy levels and spectral lines of hydrogen. Dirac's quantum mechanical theory predicted that the hydrogen atom had two possible energy states with equal energies. Lamb's accurate work using radiofrequency resonance techniques reported in 1947 revealed that there was a minute difference in these energy levels. Small as it was this Lamb shift necessitated a revision of the theory of the interaction of the electron with electromagnetic radiation. For this work Lamb was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics which he shared with another leader of research at Columbia Polykarp Kusch with whom he had performed wartime research in developing microwave radar" .Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists. Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "First measurements of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom the Lamb shift. Nobel prize to W.E. Lamb awarded in 1955 'for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.'" IN: The Physical Review Vol 72 No 3 August 1 1947 pp. 241-243. Lancaster PA. and New York NY: American Physical Society 1947. Quarto original wrappers. Tiny bump to outer edge otherwise fine. Rare in wrappers. American Physical Society paperback
162531.185Bruselas: Ivan de Meerbeque 1625. 1ª ed. Pergamino. . 20x30.8. Hermosa portada grabada. Ivan de Meerbeque unknown
179767279Printed in the UK: J. Cottle and Messrs. Robinsons 1797. Second edition. Leather over boards. Very good. Hardcover leather red morocco over boards. 12mo. xx5-278 pp. Unillustrated. Six compartment spine with five raised ribs. Gilt title and authors in compartments two and three; gilt floral ornaments in the rest. Double line gilt border stamped on the front and back boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Gilt edges. Dark blue endpapers. Bookplate reading "George Clinton Fairchild Williams" on the front pastedown. Text block is very faintly age browned and has the rare fox mark. Predominately it is clean bright unmarked and square with a strong binding. The spine and boards slightly rubbed and shelf worn most notably along the hinges and edges. Mildly bumped corners. A very handsome copy in very good condition. J. Cottle and Messrs. Robinsons unknown
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. <br/><br/> Lamb Publishing Co hardcover books
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
126-Eo.J. Pinsel in Braun und Grau, über Bleistift, graubraun laviert, auf Bütten verso Landschaft mit Bäumen, verso signiert ?Gilles Gregoor fe?. 27,4:36,1 cm. - Verso: Landschaftsskizze mit Bäumen. Bleistift. - Vertikale Knickfalte im rechten Bildfeld geglättet, rechte obere Ecke geknickt. Ein für Smak-Gregoor typisch staffierter Landschaftsausblick, der die bäuerliche Idylle Hollands bei dynamisch-lebendigen Strich zum Thema hat.
