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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare: Volume II
1835896M1London: Edward Moxon 1835. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A lovely leather bound copy of Volume II of Lamb's 'Specimens of English Dramatic Poets' from the library of the Reverend Edward Francis Witts. A new edition of this work in a full calf binding with gilt detailing to the spine and square. All edges gilt. Bookplate to the front paste down of the Reverend Edward Francis Witts 1813-1886 who succeeded his father - the diarist Reverend Francis Edward Witts 1783-1854 - as the rector of Upper Slaughter.A new edition of this anthology of extracts of scenes and speeches from Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including works by Beaumont and Fletcher Jonson Marlowe Webster and others. With brief but compelling critical notes Lamb argues for the value of this period of drama which was somewhat neglected at the time. Charles Lamb 1775-1834 was a well-beloved essayist poet and antiquarian at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He is best known for his Essays of Elia and for Tales from Shakespeare co-authored with his sister Mary Lamb 1764-1847. In a full calf binding. Externally smart with just some light rubbing to the joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last couple of pages. Near Fine Edward Moxon hardcover
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