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LAMB Charles. THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. Chapman & Hall, c. 1910, 1910.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Description: Verulam Club edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated grey paper-laid boards with printed paper spine label (a little tanned at edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper with printed label on spine (near Fine). Pp. 292, illus with b&w portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard (endpapers rather spotted; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Charles Lamb illustrated by Sybil Tawse. Essays of Elia. Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: C1910 with 24 illustrations in colour by Sybil Tawse ,vg+ in art nouveau style binding , bookplate to free endpaper, a lovely copy
Seller: Between The Boards, Connahs Quay, United Kingdom
LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia (Books of the Verulam Club). Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~Half red morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine; red cloth to boards. Top edges gilt. Owner's bookplate to inside front board. A little foxing to page edges and to early and late pages. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: (vi), 488pp. Marbled endpapers. Frontis portrait
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Burlington Library 244p brown cloth with elaborate gilt décor to front board and to spine, illustrated endpapers, colour frontispiece and addtl plates, very nice edition, very well preserved, first edition thus Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
LAMB, Charles.. The Essays Of Elia.. Chapman Hall [c.1910]., 1910.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: Gray boards with gilt design & paper label, matching dws with paper label. Sq.8vo, portrait + c.pp300 uncut, fine bright copy of an attractive square-backed book. Handsome Verulam Club Edition printed by the Ballantyne Press on high quality paper. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Charles Lamb. The Essays of Elia. Chapman & Hall, London, 1910.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Charles Lamb's delightful collection of essays, smartly bound in a half calf Bumpus binding. A 'Books of the Verulam Club' edition of this work in a half calf binding with marbled boards and end papers. Binder's stamp of Bumpus Ltd gold tooled to the front paste down. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Lamb. A charming collection of essays written by the poet and antiquarian Charles Lamb (1775-1834). These essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 until 1825. The conversational and confiding tone of the essays proved to be very popular. Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is 'Cousin Bridget'. This is the Books of the Verulam Club edition. Undated, dated from copies held at the University of Oxford Libraries. In a half calf Bumpus binding. Externally very smart, with just a little rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 244 pp. Quarter vellum over blue cloth. Gilt floral design to spine with dark green leather title label. Top edge gilt. Slight darkening to boards. Internally clean. With twenty-four colour illustrations by Sybil Tawse. Plates complete. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 244 pp. With Twenty Four Illustrations in Colour by Sybil Tawse. 8vo, full polished brown calf, a.e.g., by Riviere and Son, with a painted pictorial panel on the upper board and painted motifs on the spine and lower covers. In an old felt-lined foxing box A very fine copy inside and out. The Burlington Library.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.