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LAMB, Charles.. Album Verses, with a Few Others.. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: vii, 150 pp. 12mo, full calf; gilt spine; t.e.g. First edition. The front cover is detached and the rear cover nearly so. Two bookplates on front endsheet; tiny owner's monogram at rear. Lacking the half-title and leaf of ads.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Lamb, Charles. Album Verses with a few others. Edward Moxon, Lon, 1830.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A cheap looking binding over quarter cloth over soiled boards. With two small 19th C bookseller labels to the front pastedown. The staining on the rear board affects the rear endpapers also. Some foxing and other associated minor wear. Small owners signature, that of a "Platt Brothers" Saddleworth.

Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.

Lamb, Charles. Album Verses With a Few Others. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No half-title, leaf of ads not bound in. Rebound likely circa 1900 or earlier in half-leather and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Spine with five raised bands with much gilt decoration. TEG. Minor sunning to the upper 3/4" of the boards. Foxing to the text. A couple of catalog entries glued to the rear pastedown. Light wear along the spine edges and corners. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 150 pages

Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.

LAMB, Charles.. Album Verses, with a Few Others.. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: vii, 150 pp. 12mo, later full calf; gilt spine; a.e.g. First edition. Lightly foxed throughout; in a handsome binding.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

LAMB, Charles.. ALBUM VERSES, with a few others.. Edward Moxon., London, 1830.

Price: US$321.64 + shipping

Description: pp. viii, 150. Vignette on title page. 8vo. Full calf, edges very slightly rubbed. Minor staining on bottom edge, faintly throughout, lacking advert leaf at rear. The first book published by Moxon. 1st edition.

Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom

Lamb, Charles. Album Verses, With a Few Others. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Woodcut vignette on title-page. 8vo. To help his friend and future son in law Edward Moxon (who was to marry Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola) Lamb prepared this collection of verses, along with a two-page dedication; this was Moxon's first publication. Thomson 76; Roff, p. 169. Provenance: Robert S Pirie (his bookplate) Original brown boards, uncut, red cloth spine with printed label, marginal label chipping, hinges cracking, else fine, in red cloth slipcase with inner wrapper Woodcut vignette on title-page. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

LAMB, Charles.. Album Verses, with a few others.. Edward Moxon. 1830, 1830.

Price: US$357.38 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Vignette title; sl. spotted. Contemp. half green roan, spine with raised bands & devices in gilt; hinges starting, a little rubbed. Renier booklabel, signature of H.J. Skinner. Roff pp169-174. The first book published by Edward Moxon, and dedicated to him by the author. Includes the dramatic poem 'The Wife's Trial; or The Intruding Widow'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

LAMB, Charles.. Album Verses, with a few others.. Edward Moxon. 1830, 1830.

Price: US$428.85 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Vignette title. Leading f.e.p. detached. Attractively bound in full olive crushed morocco, panelled in gilt, raised bands, spine lettered & gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles; extremities sl. rubbed, hinges & head & tail of spine a bit worn. Pictorial bookplate of Wilhelmus Mynderse on leading pastedown; pictorial bookplate of B. Franklin & Helen G. Hadduck on leading f.e.p. with evidence of removal attempt. Roff pp169-174. The first book published by Edward Moxon, and dedicated to him by the author; Moxon would go on to marry Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Lamb (Charles). Album Verses, With A Few Others. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$495.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, later blue paper wrappers, signature on blank fly leaf, an untrimmed copy complete with leaf of ads at end, and preserved in a handsome blue half morocco gilt slip case with inner folding wrappers, nice. Moxon had encouraged Lamb to print this collection, and offered to publish it himself. It stands as Moxon's landmark first venture into the publishing field where he was to enjoy both success as well as the friendship of his authors and peers, Lamb has written a touching Dedication to Moxon, in which he notes that Moxon was particularly desirous of making this work an example of the style and elegance the Moxon name would guarantee in his publications. First edition. Because of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.

Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.

LAMB, Charles.. ALBUM VERSES, with a few others.. London: Edward Moxon 64 Bond Street, 1830.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 150, [1] advertisements; rebound in modern tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Small library stamps on title verso and at foot of p. 27; library bookplate, and also that of Samuel F. Barger. First edition of the first book issued by Edward Moxon: this collection was put together by Lamb at least partly to assist Moxon in his new venture, and he dedicated the book to him in typically affectionate and artless prose. Three years later Moxon married Emma Isola, Lamb's adopted daughter.

Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

LAMB, Charles.. Album Verses, with a few others.. Edward Moxon. 1830, 1830.

Price: US$543.21 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Vignette title, final ad. leaf; some light foxing. Uncut in orig. drab boards, brown cloth spine expertly recased, paper label rubbed; a little marked & rubbed, corners worn. Roff pp169-174. The first book published by Edward Moxon, and dedicated to him by the author; Moxon would go on to marry Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola. Includes the dramatic poem 'The Wife's Trial; or The Intruding Widow'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Lamb, Charles. Album Verses, with a Few Others [Fine Bindng]. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$595.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Signed Fine Binding. Full crushed green morocco leather, five raised bands, gilt decorative panels with red inlays, front and rear boards gilt ruled and tooled with flower motif and red leather inlay, edges gilt ruled, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, (7.25 x 4.5). First Edition. 150 pages, plus publisher's advert at rear (often lacking). First edition of the first book issued by Edward Moxon. SIGNED BINDING by W. Root & Son, London (signed in gilt on rear board turn-in). Bookplate of Cleveland Industrialist, Elton Hoyt, 2nd. A clean, tight copy showing light wear, in an impressively splendid fine leather binding Size: Octavo

Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Lamb Charles. ALBUM VERSES, WITH A FEW OTHERS.. London Edward Moxon 1830, 1830.

Price: US$715.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. With a woodcut vignette on the titlepage. 8vo, original printer's boards backed in green cloth, the spine with a paper label printed in black, now enclosed in quarter morocco slipcase. A lovely copy, scarce in the original printer's binding. the text is quite clean and fresh with just a little mottling and a few spots throughout, hinges neatly repaired at some earlier time. Contains the first book printing of Lamb's play, The Wife's Trial, which was not produced on stage. One of the first books issued with the Moxon imprint. Edward Moxon would later Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola. Lamb, who was already a very popular and established author, collected these poems, verses, sonnets and other writings to help launch the publishing endeavor of his close friend and soon-to-be son-in-law. The work sold well enough to entice other authors to visit Moxon's office; including Shelley, Tennyson, and Wordsworth.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Lamb, Charles. Album Verses, and a Few Others. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Unsophisticated copy in pink boards, with cracked hinges but no loss to paper. Printed paper label intact and clearly legible. Boards a little scuffed and rubbed. Modern slipcase of quarter morocco and marbled paper sides.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

(BINDINGS - DE SAMBLANX-WECKESSER). LAMB, CHARLES. ALBUM VERSES: WITH A FEW OTHERS. Edward Moxon, London, 1830.

Price: US$3016.00 + shipping

Description: 188 x 118 mm. (7 3/8 x 4 5/8"). vii, [1], 150 pp., [1] leaf (ads). SUPERB NAVY BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY DE SAMBLANX-WECKESSER (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with intricate gilt frame of trumpet vines bearing 36 inlaid scarlet flowers and buds, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with inlaid trumpet flower at center, gilt titling, turn-ins framed with gilt vine, navy blue moiré silk endleaves, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt. In a (slightly worn) marbled paper slipcase. Title page with engraving of a putto composing verses. Front flyleaves with bookplates of Edwin Holden (dated 1894) and John Whipple Frothingham. Wise, Ashley Cat. III, 52; Thomson, p. 76. ◆A hint of rubbing to front joint, occasional mild browning (due to paper quality), but A FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, and in a lustrous binding. In a lovely Art Nouveau binding by a Belle Époque master, this is a collection of poems assembled by essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) to launch the publishing career of his friend and future son-in-law, Edward Moxon (1801-58), to whom he dedicated the work. Composed of rather slight verses composed for the amusement of Lamb's friends and of more substantial works previously printed in periodicals, this first book bearing Moxon's imprint did well enough to attract the business of other prestigious poets, many of them friends of Lamb. Moxon, who married Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola in 1833, went on to print the works of Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, and other luminaries of the Victorian era. The graceful binding is by Belgian master craftsman Charles de Samblancx [or Samblanx] (1855-1943), who began his binding career at age 11, as an apprentice to Coppens. He eventually established his own firm (though from 1889-1909 his gilder Jacques Weckesser was in partnership with him). His binding career extended over several decades, and he worked in a variety of period styles, sensitively reproducing the bindings of previous centuries. His work, often involving great complexity of design, is invariably executed with the highest degree of skill. Our copy was once owned by American bibliophile and Grolier Club president Edwin Holden (1861-1906).

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.