By W. Carew Hazlitt
London   Chatto and Windus
10.5" by 8.5" 6-294, 31pp
The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated biographical study of English writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb.
By W. Carew Hazlitt

1874 Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains

London   Chatto and Windus
10.5" by 8.5" 6-294, 31pp
The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated biographical study of English writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb.
£85.00
: 1.5kgs / : 955F37

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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Scarce

A scarce first edition.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates, including a folding facsimile. Collated, complete.

The work of English lawyer and bibliographer William Carew Hazlitt, grandson of essayist and critic William Hazlitt.

Hazlitt describes the lives and careers of siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, the joint authors of 'Tales from Shakespeare', and includes letters and poems from the two, which had never before been collected.

Rebound in half morocco, with endpapers renewed.

Condition

Rebound in half morocco, with cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to joints and back strip head and tail. Front hinge lightly strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to title page and frontispiece, with the odd spot throughout. Pages bright.

Very Good

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