Price. Sotheby’s, 1889, £2 8s.
1827
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Title: THE | TABLE BOOK; | by William Hone. | with Engravings. [Motto] Every Saturday. | London: | Published for William Hone, | by Hunt and Clarke, York-Street, | Covent-Garden, | 1827, 8vo
Collation: Frontispiece [Petrarch’s Inkstand], 1 page, Title, 1 page, Preface, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 870.
Note. This, like the other books of Hone, was issued in Parts, every Saturday, commencing January 1, 1827, Lamb’s contributions being, p. 454, “Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton,” and p. 387, “Gone or Going,” and the Introductions to the Garrick plays, which are on pages 56, 67, 80, 96, 112, 128, 150, 162, 178, 192, 209, 224, 243, 256, 280, 291, 304, 320, 338, 352, 368, 394, 400, 417, 440, 449, 467, 480, 500, 514, 530, 547, 578, 595, 610, 642, 663, 676, 690, 704, 724, 737, 770, 784, 800, 817. In a note addressed to Hone, dated January 27, 1827, written on the fly-leaf of a copy of “Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,” Lamb proposed this series, to which the editor gladly acceded. The copy named is now owned in New York.
Price. £1 10s.
1830
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Title: MEMOIRS | of | THE LIFE AND TIMES | of | DANIEL DEFOE: | containing | a review of his writings, | and | his opinions upon a variety of important matters, civil and | ecclesiastical. | By Walter Wilson, Esq. Of the Inner Temple. | In Three volumes. | London: | Hurst, Chance, and Co. | 1830. 3 vols 8vo