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Title: THE | ADVENTURES | of | ULYSSES | by | CHARLES LAMB | London: | Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars | for the Juvenile Library, No. 41 Skinner-| Street, Snow Hill | 1808 16mo
Collation: Engraved Frontispiece, 1 page, Vignette Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. vi. pp. 203. Advertisement on reverse of page 203. Size 6⅞ × 4⅛.
Note. “I have done two books since the failure of my farce: they will both be out this summer. The one is a juvenile book—the ‘Adventures of Ulysses,’ intended to be an introduction to the reading of Telemachus! It is done out of the Odyssey, not from the Greek (I would not mislead you) nor yet from Pope’s Odyssey, but from an older translation of one Chapman.” See Letter to Manning, February 26, 1808.
Price. Johnson Sale, New York, 1890 [morocco, gilt], $20. Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf], £3 7s. 6d.—uncut original boards, £3 3s. Sotheby’s, 1889 [calf], £5 12s. 6d. Robson & Kerslake, 1889 [calf, gilt], £8 8s. Sotheby’s, 1889 [calf], £2 6s. J. Pearson [calf, by Bedford], £6 6s. Scribner & Welford [original boards, uncut], $16.00.
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Title: SPECIMENS | of | ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, | who lived | about the time of SHAKESPEARE: | with Notes. | By Charles Lamb. | London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, | Paternoster-Row. | 1808, small 8vo
Collation: Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. xii. pp. 484. Size 5 × 7¾.