Note. “It is done out of the old Plays at the Museum and out of Dodsley’s Collection, etc. It is to have Notes.” [See Letter to Manning, February 26, 1808.]
Price. Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [morocco, gilt], $7.00. Sotheran, 1890 [uncut], £2 2s. J. Pearson, 1890 [half calf, gilt top, uncut], £3 15s. Scribner & Welford [boards, uncut], $16.50.
1809
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Title: POETRY | for | CHILDREN | ENTIRELY ORIGINAL | By the Author of | “Mrs. Leicester’s School” | In Two volumes | vol I | (vol II) | London: | Printed for M. J. Godwin, | At the Juvenile Library, No. 41, Skinner Street, | 1809. 2 vols 18mo
Collation: Vol. I. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents 1 page. pp. 103. 1 page of Advertisement. Colophon: Mercier and Shervet, Printers, No. 32, Little Bartholomew Close, London. Vol. II. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents, 1 page. pp. 104. Colophon: Printed by Mercier and Chervet, No. 32, Little Bartholomew Close, London. Bound in gray paper with green leather backs.
Note. Lamb contributed to this “The Three Friends,” “To a River in which a Child was Drowned,” “Queen Oriana’s Dream,” besides other poems not certainly identified; the rest were by Mary. The Frontispiece to Vol. I. is a little boy seated in a Landscape, with the line “Keep on your own side, do Grey Pate. Page 29.” Vol. II., the Frontispiece is “Penitent Richard standing in a Landscape,” with three lines of poetry. At the time of the Locker Catalogue, 1886, only one perfect copy was known [see Gentleman’s Magazine, July, 1877, for account of its discovery]. It was reprinted at Boston in 1812. A Mrs. Tween, daughter of Lamb’s friend Mr. Randall Norris, has a copy of “Poetry for Children” given her by Mary Lamb.
Price. Sotheby’s, 1888, £35 [Leycester’s Sale, November 12-14].
1811
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