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1798305354London: T. Bensley for John and Arthur Arch 1798. First edition. 95 1 pp. 12mo. Full tan morocco gilt a.e.g. by Riviere. Joints slightly rubbed title-page browned at margins. First edition. 95 1 pp. 12mo. First edition of this early publication of Lamb to that point his most substantial collection. Thirteen of the poems are by Lloyd and seven by Lamb including "The Old Familiar Faces" Ashley III pp. 38-39; Hayward 210; Roff pp 31ff. Provenance: Myrtle A. Crummer bookplate T. Bensley for John and Arthur Arch 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/><br/> Henry Colburn hardcover
171668226London: Printed for J. Nutt and A. Roper 1716. Second much expanded edition with "several new cuts and above five Hundred new receipts." Octavo 7 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 195 x 115 mm 8 302 10 pp. Five of the final leaves comprise 'A bill of fare for every season in the year.' Complete with forty engraved plates thirty-three of which are folding. Plates are not bound in numerical order but all are present. With the Coronation dinner plate which is often lacking. This edition is mentioned in Bitting but not in the collection.<br> <br> Contemporary paneled calf rebacked to style. Newer red morocco spine label. lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of minor staining and a few very minor marginal wormholes. A paper flaw to plate " 9" and plate "11' trimmed close mildly affecting engraving. Overall text and plates generally very clean. A very good copy.<br> <br> "In August 1677 Lamb was appointed as master cook to the queen consort held in tandem with the office of sergeant of his majesty's pastry in ordinary to which he was elevated in November 1677. Finally in February 1683 Lamb attained the status of master cook to the monarch. He was reappointed to this post under the successive household regulations of James II William and Mary and Anne and was removed from it only by death. His services as a royal cook encompassed the provision of prepared dishes for daily and extraordinary consumption by the monarch and his guests at table.Lamb's culinary skills were most effectively demonstrated in extraordinary events and his claims for large expenditures on such occasions as the Westminster visit of the Venetian ambassadors in December 1685 testify to the splendour of these.These and other junkets are evoked in the text of Royal Cookery published posthumously in London under Lamb's name by John Morphew and Abel Roper in 1710 and subsequently reprinted in 1716 1726 and 1731. The text incorporated recipes for elaborate dishes alongside engravings of lavish table layouts for occasions such as royal suppers. Such details suggest that the text was drawn from Lamb's papers rather than being speculatively published under his name as some contemporaries contended." Oxford DNB.<br> <br> Bitting Pg.271. ESTC T91553.<br> <br> HBS 68226.<br> <br> $3000. Printed for J. Nutt and A. Roper unknown
190333330901London and New York: J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co 1903. Hardcover. Near fine. Brock C.E. Twelve volumes complete in a half-leather Bayntun binding many illustrations hand-coloured extra-illustrated with 370 extra plates small octavo size approx. 4400 pp. Charles Lamb 1997-1834 is perhaps best remembered today for his "Essays of Elia" and "Tales from Shakespeare" which he co-authored with his sister Mary Lamb to introduce Shakespeare to children. His biographer claimed that Lamb was "the most lovable figure in English literature" n.b. per Wiki. <br /> <br /> Lamb's article in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" is lengthy and sheds light into many corners of the man's mind. My favourite is the penultimate paragraph which sums up his talents and legacy thus: "Lamb's writings were held in highest esteem probably in the fifty years from about 1870 to 1920. The qualities in him that could be seen as whimsy and sentimentality meant that his reputation fared less well during the later professionalization of English literary studies. Later writers wishing to act as Lamb's advocates have looked to the more unsettling and darker notes of his writing detecting in him another artist of Romantic anxiety if not agony. On the other hand Lamb has never been short of readers who respond to the forgiving friendliness of his manner the novelistic vitality of his portraits and the odd combination of the colloquial and the erudite in his prose style." <br /> <br /> This set of Lamb's works is profusely illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock 1870-1938 who provided the artwork for many well-known authors including Jane Austen Oliver Goldsmith Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift and George Eliot as well as contributing over 100 illustrations to "Punch". His style seems suited to Lamb's output and the many illustrations including chapter head- and tail-pieces bring the text to life with almost all of them being hand-coloured. In addition the set is extra-illustrated wtih 370 extra plates being mostly the various personages both historical and contemporary both real-life and fictional mentioned in the relevant passages. There is one plate by Rowlandson Volume 1 facing p. 232 and one coloured plate by George Cruikshank Volume 3 facing p. 73. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Bayntun in half-leather over cloth boards the spine compartments ruled in gilt and with gilt lettering "Extra Illustrated 1903" at the tail of the spines top edges gilt marbled endpapers in shades of light pink and blue vintage gift inscription on the flyleaf of the first volume dated Christmas 1916 tissue-guarded frontis in Volume I a hand-coloured bust portrait of Lamb each volume with a different fronti title pages in red and black according to a pencil notation on the verso of the front free endpaper in the first volume there are "350 Coloured / 330 Exra Illustrations"; however by our count there are 370 extra illustrations; bindings are small octavo size 7 5/8" by 4 7/8" the set contains approx. 407 preliminary pp. and 4066 text pp. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Near fine the boards clean straight corners with minimal rubbing strong square text blocks with solid hinges the interiors mostly clean and bright a few pages with light soil and the sole prior owner marking being the Christmas gift inscription noted above; uniform light sunning to the spines a very few exceedingly minor defects to the leather a few extra plates have offsetting to the opposite pages we did note a few very short closed tears to several leaves margins only. Overall a lovely set. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy set and therefore additional postage will apply; please inquire for details. International customers please also note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. J.M. Dent & Co. [and] E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
2009__0754628426Ashgate Pub Co 2009. Hardcover. New. 3472 pages. 13.39x10.24x7.87 inches. Ashgate Pub Co hardcover
1358Three travel diaries written by Artist Aimee Lamb 2 and her sister Edith Duncan Lamb 1. The two by Aimee measure 8†x 10.5†and the one by Edith measures 7†x 8.5.†All three diaries have very descriptive writing and are filled with photos postcards drawings and ephemera. They talk about seeing the sights taking photographs and sketching.<br /> <br /> Aimee Lamb 1893-1910 was born and died in Boston. She studied art at the Winsor School 1905 - 1910 and the School of Fine Arts in Boston 1913 - 1917 . She also studied under artists Philip Hale and William James.<br /> <br /> Her biography on AskARt includes: <br /> <br /> In the early 1920´s she studied two summers in Dublin N H. with Alexander James and Richard Meryman and two more summers with the artist Charles Woodbury in Maine. In New York she studied under the Portrait painter artist Cecilia Beaux. Although she is better known for her philanthropic contribution to the arts community Lamb's paintings and drawings have been represented in exhibitions with the Boston Institute of Modern Art The Copley Society The Boston Athenaeum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts as well as in a number of private collections.<br /> <br /> Her work is in the MFA in Boston including a portrait of her sister Edith Duncan Lamb.<br /> Edith 1901-1928 was born in Massachusetts and died in Maine after a long illness.<br /> <br /> Diary #1 – Aimee Lamb 1911 – 153 handwritten pages 7 unused with approximately 115 photos 60 postcards and 18 drawings some on the page some tipped in. Other items inside include Grouse feathers playbills clippings etc. The diary starts on July 25th and ends on October 25th. On this trip she visited England and France. On the first day she wrote “My first trip abroad with Aunt Rose 1911.†They started from Boston and arrived in Liverpool on August 7th. The covers are detached and the spine is missing. Some items are detached from the page though it appears that nothing is missing.<br /> A few examples of her writing include:<br /> August 14th Monday Porlock: I got up quite early and went out and took some photographs and sketched a little before breakfast. The sun was rather fad for photographing……We went to the Castle Hotel where we found we could have a beautiful large double room overlooking the sea so we took it. I tad the most magnificent views of great high pinky cliffs. You could not see the horizon as there was a fog but it made the view so soft and lovely. I went sound asleep in the afternoon and Aunt Rose rested. When I woke up she read me from Lorna Doone. It is the most enchanting book I never appreciated it when I first read it but now I have seen the country and I am older and I think it is most charming. After dinner I wrote to Tom and then went to bed.<br /> September 27th: In the morning we took a carriage for the day and started at nine o’clock. We drove first to Tregastel where there were the most wonderful rocks I have ever seen. They looked like queer animals monsters. We stayed there an hour or so walking around on them. I wish we had had more time for it was enchanting. I picked up quantities of lovely yellow shells I found in the sand for Edith. I also took some photographs but they give no idea of the size of the rocks where were gigantic. They were all named but we didn’t know the names. <br /> <br /> Diary #2. Aimee Lamb undated as to year. Starts February 21st on board the SS Adriatic with her mother and they spent time in Italy. I believe the year is 1917 as she says that they leave on Ash Wednesday and that year it was February 21st. There are 9 larger souvenir type of photos over 30 postcards and four small watercolors. There are also some dried flowers in between the pages. <br /> Examples of her entries include:<br /> Friday March 8th Naples to Sorrento: The Hunnewells had accepted our invitation to join us in taking the trip around Sorrento Amalfi etc. We started out bright and early stopping at Parks on our way where we met the Hunnewells. We took the 10 O’clock train for Pompeii. I was perfectly delight with Pompeii. It was so picturesque and paintable. I had an idea that it had only one or two streets but I was much mistaken. It is a large city. We walked for two hours and a half steadily and then didn’t see it all. There were so many interesting houses that we walked until we nearly dropped. I took a good many photographs. We took a carriage on Cook’s ticket and drove to Sorrento. About a two-hour drive. We had brought our lunch with us expecting to eat it at Pompeii but hadn’t had time so we ate it in the carriage. Mana and Louisa sat forwards and Arnold and I sat backwards. We won the drivers heart by offering him a piece of cheese which had fallen at the bottom of the carriage. He was delighted and stuffed it under the seat of the box saying he had had three wives and fifteen children……. The drive to Sorrento was pretty. We found very good rooms in a delightful hotel Victoria over hanging the sea. <br /> Tuesday March 19th Rome: Passed morning in bed very tired. Harriet Post came to lunch but had to go early sorry to say. I read and painted all afternoon while Mama went out with Miss Pine to call on Mr. and Mrs. Millet. <br /> <br /> The third diary is written by Aimee Lamb’s sister Edith Duncan Lamb whose name is listed in a passenger list headed to Europe in June 1923 and headed back to New York that September. 243 pages used with 55 pages unused. It is chock full of about 160 postcards 75 photos one watercolor theatre programs ticket stubs and other assorted ephemera. She traveled around England and Scotland. Her handwriting takes a little more time to get used to but it is legible. Some examples include:<br /> Winchester July 22nd: In the morning I was told that Master woods would go with me the cathedral. So off we started. He is a most charming child of twelve. The music was lovely with beautiful soprano notes. We sat in the back as the choir was so full. It is hard to hear the service here but the singing was more lovely…… <br /> Edinburgh Sunday August 25th: This morning we went to the St. Giles to church. Edinburgh was very quiet indeed a change from the jostling mob of Saturday night. St. Giles was most impressive. The soft light and the stone pillars and wall that looks made of square stones rightly put together……The service was one of the most impressive I have ever been to. The first lesson was about the friendship of Saul & Jonathan the second chapter of St. John……In the afternoon I have been writing to catch up with my diary. unknown
1833100377London: Edward Moxon 1835; 1833. Elia: "a new edition"; Last Essays: first edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Paper-covered boards uncut hand-lettered on spines; corners bumped a few repairs to bindings in custom red morocco-backed clamshell box. These two volumes were owned by John Matthew Gutch 1776-1861 Lamb's contemporary schoolfellow and lifelong friend and proprietor of "Felix Farley's Bristol Journal" in which some Lamb writing appeared. In Elia Gutch has transcribed on the verso of the title-page two poems each titled "To Elia" in praise of Lamb by Bernard Barton 1784-1849 known as the Quaker Poet and chiefly remembered as Lamb's friend. In Last Essays Gutch has annotated the Preface and Contents in pencil; laid in are four pages of his penciled notes "Notices of Elia in London Magazine" consisting of volume and page references to various works "Christ Hospital" "The Two Races of Men" "A Character of the Late Elia" etc. A fine association.PROVENANCE: John Matthew Gutch his annotations; Robert S Pirie bookplateREFERENCES: Roff 185 Edward Moxon hardcover
1900ST14309Boston: R. H. Hinckley Company ca. 1900. Edmonton Edition. No. 56 OF 100 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 240 x 150 mm. 9 3/8 x 5 7/8". 12 volumes. <br/> HANDSOME DARK PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT triple gilt-ruled border with sprays of flowers in each corner and along the sides raised bands compartments with gilt lettering and tooling top edge gilt RED MOROCCO DOUBLURES bordered in purple border featuring several gilt rules and scrolling gilt tools in panel corners red watered silk endpapers. With portrait frontispieces and numerous gravure plates. Limitation statement of first volume with the initials of the printer D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press; flyleaf of each volume with morocco ex-libris of Francis Kettaneh. Extremities with the occasional tiny nick spines slightly sunned covers with a few negligible scratches a few pages with light thumbing in the margins but all of these blemishes trivial. A FINE SET INSIDE AND OUT.<br/> <br/> This finely bound finely printed and strictly limited set includes the biography prose letters essays and poetry of "the prince of English essayists." According to Day Charles Lamb contributed to the essay form by concentrating on feeling rather than thought by projecting a fuller sense of self into the work and by imbuing his text with a poetic or lyrical quality. Lamb was also an accomplished poet writing in both rhyming and blank verse as well as a friend to many of the leading literary figures of the Romantic period--his correspondents include Wordsworth Southey Hazlitt and Coleridge whom he had known since childhood. Lamb's letters by turns witty and meditative reveal a life of intense reading and writing at a time when British literature was undergoing a radical transformation. Charles Lamb 1775-1834 was educated at Christ's Hospital and at 17 joined the East India House where he worked from 1792-1825. In 1796 Lamb's sister Mary stabbed and killed their mother with scissors in a fit of insanity. Charles took on her care as well as serving as sole support for a dying aunt and a prematurely senile father. Nonetheless Lamb and his sister were devoted to one another and lived long and productive lives publishing together the wildly popular "Tales from Shakespeare" 1807 and "Mrs. Leicester's School" 1809 both of which are included here. Though unsigned the bindings are extremely attractive and fittingly luxurious for the limited-edition contents--the thick gilt tooling luxurious doublures and red silk endpapers housing tactilely pleasing Japanese vellum make this set a delight both to have and to hold. R. H. Hinckley Company unknown
196327791Modern Library. As New. 1963. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Modern Library hardcover
1909194748London J.M. Dent & Company 1909. 1909. Thick 4to. 13 tipped-on color plates including frontispiece; 36 b/w vignettes and designs. 3/4 gilt stamped red morocco with gilt decorative devices on the spine t.e.g. uncut. Fine and fresh. #249/750 large paper copies signed by Rackham. With publisher’s slip stating that the limited edition contains an extra plate at page 16 that does not appear in the trade edition. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Company, 1909. hardcover
1797317524Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs For J. Cottle . and Messrs. Robinson London 1797. Second edition expanded. xx 278 pp. lacking the rare errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. Original grey boards untrimmed. Finely rebacked to style old wear and soiling to board edges. Red calf drop box with contrasting labels. Second edition expanded. xx 278 pp. lacking the rare errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. After the favorable reception of the first edition of 1796 the publisher Cottle requested a second to which Coleridge contributed several new pieces including "The Ode to the Departing Year" and a new Preface in which he defended himself from charges of obscurity. This edition also includes twelve new poems by Charles Lamb - whose name appears on the title-page for the first time - and a number of poems by Charles Lloyd.<br /> <br /> Nice copy in boards with a later Coleridge family connection. ESTC N11843; Haney 8; Tinker 679; Wise Coleridge 11; Thomson VI. For binding cf. Bennett p. 117 fig. 4.40. Provenance: Robert Porter bookplate with blindstamp: Montpelier Cottage Beeston Notts; The Beeston Club ink inscription on front pastedown: "This book is given by the Beeston Club to Mr. Dominick Daly in exchange for a modern and complete edition of Coleridge's Works . 1891"; Dominick Daly inscription on front free endpaper "To S.D. Coleridge Esq. with compliments of D.D. 24/1/91"; William H. Painter book label on front pastedown Printed by N. Biggs, For J. Cottle ... and Messrs. Robinson, London unknown
1888151609Troy New York: Pafraets Book Company 1888. A handsome set The Edmonton Edition number 90 of 250 sets all attractively printed on hand-made paper and here handsomely bound. 12 vols octavo 231 x 148 mm. Illustrated throughout. Contemporary green morocco spines lettered in gilt gilt ornaments in compartments wide gilt frame to covers red morocco onlay to floral cornerpieces front covers with gilt supralibos of dragon above banner lettered "Tenebo" gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. Spines sunned to brown some tips a little bumped else a fine set. unknown
1909186497London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton New York 1909. Illustrating this classic rendering by the Lambs Signed limited edition number 534 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The deluxe edition contains an extra plate "Puck" not included in the trade edition. Rackham previously illustrated the work in 1899 but no signed edition was issued and the illustrations were uncoloured line-drawings. The publisher's prefatory note states that the latter "have since been worked over revised and coloured by the artist while some entirely new designs have been added". Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on heavy paper black and white illustrations in text. Original white cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt pictorial endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed original dark red ribbon ties red silk bookmarker laid in. Spine foot bumped a few spots to rear cover else bright: a near-fine copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 33-4; Riall p. 90. hardcover
1828304322Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. 230 2 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Original printed yellow-coated boards pink linen spine with fine paper labeluncut. Scattered foxing throughout. Half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. 230 2 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. This is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present edition mistakenly included two essays by Bryan Waller Proctor and one by Allan Cunningham Roff. With a copy of the second American edition of the First Series. Roff p. 157; American Imprints 33813 CSmH; PPL. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair Blairhame bookplate; Sotheby's New York 3 December 2004; Robert S Pirie bookplate Carey, Lea and Carey unknown
1833232748London: Edward Moxon 1833. First edition first issue of the first series; first English edition of the second series. 2 341; xii 283 pp.; without the half-title in volume one; and without ad leaves in either. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full chestnut morocco gilt t.e.g. others uncut by Stikeman & Co. N.Y. Fine. First edition first issue of the first series; first English edition of the second series. 2 341; xii 283 pp.; without the half-title in volume one; and without ad leaves in either. 2 vols. 8vo. An irresistible copy of Lamb's classic essays. Grolier English 74; Tinker 1457 & 1458; Ashley III pp. 50 53; Livingston/Roff pp. 149ff 185ff Edward Moxon unknown
182853688Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. First American Edition First Printing. Original Boards. Very good. First American editions of both volumes and the first complete edition as the second volume was not published in England until 1833 the first American edition was unauthorized. The term "second edition" appears on the title page of volume I because the first edition had been published in London in 1823; all copies of the first American edition bear this "second edition" statement. Both volumes are in the original boards. Volume I is in blue unprinted boards with cream paper spine and spine label this appears to be a variant binding as most others we've seen were in yellow printed boards. Front outer joint partly cracked spine a bit cupped but an otherwise clean bright untrimmed copy; about very good. Volume II is very good or better in the publisher's yellow printed boards with red muslin spine and spine label. Mild wear to corners but a very sharp sound example. Occasional very light foxing to both volumes but much less so than usual. Both volumes bear the leather bookplates of Arthur M. Brown as well as another early 20th century bookplate. Volume I also has another bookplate and ownership signature both belonging to minor poet and Episcopal priest Charles West Thomson. It is likely that this set was married around the turn of the century. Housed in green cloth dust jackets with gilt spine titles and matching slipcases with green morocco edges. Very good. Hardcover. <br /> <br />The first collected editions of these much-loved essays by Charles Lamb which appeared in the London Magazine in the early 1820s. Those editions being highly ephemeral and difficult to obtain this partly pirated American edition represents the first reasonably obtainable complete edition of his collected essays. <br /> <br />Often found rebound or in rough condition this is an appealing set. <br /> <br/><br/> Carey, Lea and Carey hardcover
1797307972Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs For J. Cottle . and Messrs. Robinson London 1797. Second edition expanded. xx 278 pp. lacking the rare errata slip. 12mo. Blue crushed levant morocco spine gilt t.e.g by Riviere. Mended tear on title touching one letter of imprint. Bookplate. Second edition expanded. xx 278 pp. lacking the rare errata slip. 12mo. After the favorable reception of the first edition of 1796 the publisher Cottle requested a second to which Coleridge contributed several new pieces including "The Ode to the Departing Year" and a new Preface in which he defended himself from charges of obscurity: "I have pruned the double-epithets with no sparing hand; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction" Preface p. xvii. This edition also includes twelve new poems by Charles Lamb - whose name appears on the title-page for the first time - and a number of poems by Coleridge's student Charles Lloyd. ESTC N11843; Haney 8; Tinker 679; Wise Coleridge 11; Ashley I p. 199; Thomson VI Printed by N. Biggs, For J. Cottle ... and Messrs. Robinson, London unknown
18231272931823. First Edition. LAMB Charles. Elia and Last Essays of Elia. London: Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon 1823 1833. Together two volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt black morocco spine labels marbled boards; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $2000.First editions constituting the first collection in book form of all Lambs Elia Essays.""The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conventional pomp of style. A sly hit a happy pun a humorous combination lets the light into the intricacies of the subject Lamb gives an importance to every thing and sheds a grace over all"" Allibone 1050 1049. ""The first series of these popular Essays appeared in the London Magazine between August 1820 and October 1822; the second series between May 1823 and August 1825"" Lowndes 1300. Volume I with Taylor and Hessey imprint indicating first issue bound with advertisements in rear of both volumes. Half title in Volume II as issued. CBEL III:632. Scattered foxing to text expert restoration to joints and extremities of handsome contemporary bindings. hardcover
1809147994London: Tabart and Co. 1809. Second edition of this satirical work with beautiful color plates. Octodecimo contemporary calf bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine with 23 of 24 hand-colored plates with The Knight missing as is common for this title. In very good condition bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Charles Lamb 1775–1834 was an English essayist poet and writer best known for his works Essays of Elia and Tales from Shakespeare. Although primarily celebrated for his literary essays Lamb also ventured into social commentary as seen in his lesser-known work A Book Explaining the Ranks and Dignities of British Society 1811. The book offers a satirical yet insightful exploration of the various classes and social hierarchies in British society during the early 19th century. Written in a light and engaging style it critiques the class distinctions and often mocks the pretensions of the British aristocracy reflecting Lamb's sharp wit and social awareness. Tabart and Co. hardcover
1823260908London: Taylor & Hessey 1823. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. Short 8vos finely bound by Tout in full polished calf; ornate gilt-decorated spines with raised bands inner dentelles marbled endpapers a.e.g. London: Taylor and Hessey 1823 & London: Edward Moxon 1833. First editions<br/> <br/> The first volume has a scuff mark on the front cover and is a second issue with two addresses in the imprint.<br/> <br/> Taylor & Hessey unknown
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199368162Gallery. New. 1993. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English and French with captions in English or French only. 272 pp. With 138 ills. 44 col. . 28 x 23 cm. Description: "Presenting the first detailed study of the oeuvre of Canadian painter Bobak b. 1920 this catalogue features a critical biography an essay chronicling her activities as the first Canadian woman to be commissioned as an official war artist and reproductions of 126 paintings drawings and watercolors dating from 1940 to 1993 among them expressively rendered still lifes and interiors semi-abstract depictions of cityscapes and crowd scenes and a substantial selection of wartime sketches." -- with a bonus offer-- . Gallery paperback
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