The Works of Charles Lamb (1855)
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The Works of Charles Lamb (1855)
by Charles Lamb
6 ½ x 4 ¼. In English. Printed by Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, London, Dover Street, 1855. New Edition. Four Volumes. Complete. Handsomely bound in 3/4 tan morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, with lovely gilt spine compartments. Black and red morocco title and volume labels. Hints of rubbing to extremities with toned spines. Corners from lightly bumped to still very sharp. All edges, pastedowns and endpapers elegantly marbled. Penned name to front pastedown of volume one. No other ownership markings. Very light foxing to endpapers. Each volume with a half title page. First volume with portrait frontispiece of Charles Lamb. Text is bright and crisp, free from foxing, with virtually no signs of use. A very nice set, the binding solid and pleasing, and internally quite fresh and clean.
Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the center of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature.” (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
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Inventory Number: 29130
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