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Letters of Charles Lamb, 1796-1801 : The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb , Volume I [with facsimile letter found ONLY in this copy]
by Marrs, Edwin W. (editor); Charles Lamb
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition/No jacket, as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0801409306
- ISBN 13
- 9780801409301
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. Includes a facsimile Lamb letter [origin unknown] laid-in ONLY in this copy. Near Fine condition. Bright, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. But for a sprinkling of tiny brown speckles (foxing) on the fore-edge of the text block, all pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. [In order to write this description, your cataloguer had to remove the book from its original clear plastic shrink-wrap]. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Charles Lamb at age 23 (after a drawing by Robert Hancock) and 8 other plates. Contains 95 pages of introductory matter, and 102 letters written by Lamb between 1796 and 1801. Included are 41 letters to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and 13 to Robert Southey. Among other recipients are William Wordsworth, William Godwin, Robert Lloyd, and Thomas Manning. Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in shiny gold over a dark green spine panel. Laid in is a large folded facsimile of a letter from Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt (late Stoddart), December 10, 1808. It begins: "Dear Sarah, I hear of you from your brother but you do not write yourself nor does Hazlitt…" The letter has a postscript written by Charles Lamb. This facsimile letter was NOT issued with the book offered here and its origin is unknown to this bookseller, but here it is.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xcv, 292pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005275
- Title
- Letters of Charles Lamb, 1796-1801 : The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb , Volume I [with facsimile letter found ONLY in this copy]
- Author
- Marrs, Edwin W. (editor); Charles Lamb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket, as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801409306
- ISBN 13
- 9780801409301
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca and London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
- Size
- 8vo. xcv, 292pp
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