Collation: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents, 1 page. pp. xxxii. pp. 368. Five illustrations, including Frontispiece. Size 8⅛ × 5½.
Note. Charles Lamb contributed sixteen pages to this volume anonymously, viz.: pp. 201-216, entitled “Confessions of a Drunkard.” The author and compiler was Basil Montagu. The Essay, with a few additional pages, was reprinted in the London Magazine, August, 1822, and signed “Elia.”
Price. Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf gilt], £2, 10s. Hitchman’s, 1890 [boards, uncut], 21s. Sotheran’s [calf, by Bedford], £3 10s. Pearson’s, 1889 [boards, uncut], £1 5s. Scribner & Welford, $25.00 [calf].
1818
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Title: THE | WORKS | OF | CHARLES LAMB. | In two volumes. | vol I | (vol II) | London: | Printed for C. and J. Ollier, | Vere-street, Bond-street | 1818. 2 vols 16mo
Collation: Vol. I. Title, 1 page. pp. ix. 1 unnumbered page. pp. 291. Vol. II. Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 unnumbered page, Inscription, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 259. Advertisement, 2 pages. Size 6⅞ × 4⅛.
Note. The dedication is to Coleridge, and in it Lamb says: “My friend Lloyd and myself came into our first battle (authorship is a sort of warfare) under cover of the great Ajax.” There are two different issues of this date, one on thicker paper and a trifle taller than the other.
Price. Sotheby’s, 1887 [half calf], £1 5s. [calf, uncut], £2. Sotheran [original boards, with book label of Wm. Hazlitt], £5 5s. Sotheby’s, 1889 [original boards], £2 10s. J. Pearson, 1889 [original boards, uncut], £4 4s. Scribner & Welford [original boards, uncut], $25.00.
1823