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Price: US$365.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth spines over cream cloth boards, lettered gilt on spines. Volume 1. The essays of Elia -- Volume 2. Last essays of Elia -- Volume 3. Critical essays -- Volume 4. Essays and sketches -- Volume 5. Poems and plays -- Volume 6. Tales from Shakspeare -- Volume 7. Lamb, C. and M. Stories for children -- Volume 8. Lamb, C. and M. Poetry for children -- Volume 9 and 10. Specimens of dramatists -- Volume 11 and 12. Letters of Charles Lamb. Illustrations by C. E. Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson, Herbert Railton. Very slight browning to endpapers, otherwise very good+.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: All volumes: burgundy cloth/boards; gilt spine lettering on brown leather title block. With bw frontis engraving/tissue guard and occasional illustrations. TEG; deckled edges. Vol. I: xiii, [1], 557 pp.; Vol. II: viii, [1], 475 pp.; Vol. III: xii, 506 pp.; Vol. IV: xviii, [1], 643 pp.; Vol. V: xiii, [1], 387 pp.; Vol. VI: xxiv, 548 pp.; Vol. VII: xxii, [1], paginated continuously from Vol. VI to page 1025. A heavy set at 14 pounds (6.4 kilos) and will require extra postage. The complete set of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by E.V. Lucas. The volumes are titled Miscellaneous Prose 1798-1834; Elia and the Last Essays of Elia; Books for Children; Dramatic Specimens and the Garrick Plays; Poems and Plays; Letters (Vols. VI and VII). The Lucas edition of Lamb's Works, 7 vols (1903-05) set new standards for antiquarian work on a modern writer. (David Hill Radcliffe) Scarce as a complete set. VG, clean, tight contents with many pages uncut. Art school ex-lib. with usual marks but never checked out. Some general shelf wear to covers and light foxing to page bottoms when closed. Gilded top edge wearing a bit.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: , Matching set of finely bound volumes comprising: Volume I The Essays of Elia; Volume II The Last Essays of Elia; Volume III Critical Essays; Volume IV Essays and Sketches; Volume V Poems, Plays and Rosamund Gray; Volume VI Tales from Shakespeare; Volume VII Stories for Children; Volume VIII Poetry for Children; Volume IX and X Specimens of English Dramatic Poets [2 volumes]; Volume XI and XII Letters [2 volumes]. No. 38 of a limited edition large paper set of 200 for the UK market. Some volumes have coloured frontispieces. Black and white plates and in text illustrations throughout Limited Edition , light bumping to corners and spines, some marking to vellum and cloth in places, rubbing to cloth at bottom of front board on Volume IX, bookplate to front free endpaper of volume I, gutter on volume I starting to crack but boards held, untrimmed edges, front hinge partly split on volume VI, foxing to endpapers, pages clean, very good condition , quarter vellum with blue cloth, gilt title and decoration to spines, gilt monogram to front boards, gilt top edges , octavo, 22 cm x 13 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Large-paper edition, limited to 200 sets for England and 100 sets for America. This is set number 100 of the American edition. Complete in twelve large octavo volumes in three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Spines with gilt floral devices in compartments. Top edges gilt; others uncut. Color frontispieces in each volume, and illustrated throughout with full-page and vignette b/w drawings by C.E. Brock. Slight darkening at upper and lower spines, else a near-fine set, sumptuously produced.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.