Talfourd, Thomas Noon. Final Memorials of Charles Lamb Consisiting Chiefly of His Letters Not before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions. Edward Moxon, London, 1848.

Price: US$199.99 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Two volumes. Half-leather, raised bands, marbled boards, titled in gilt, TEG, marbled endpages, ribbon marker. Ex-college library with minimal library markings (bookplates to fep and ffep, each volume, and pencilled number at rear, no other library markings. ) Tipped into volume 2 is a letter written/signed by Talfourd. Each volume has a frontis portrait with tissue. The boards of each volume are cleanly detached and included. They show minor rubbing. The contents are tight and crisp. ; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

(Lamb, Charles) Talfourd, Thomas Noone. Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting Chiefly of His Letters not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions. Edward Moxon, London, 1848.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. With ALS From Bernard Barton in the Form of A Punning Poem. Laid in is an autograph letter, signed from the poet Bernard Barton to Yorke (sic) Clarke Esq. in the form of a punning poem based upon the motto on a wafer sent him which reads - "I trouble you with a line." The poem is one full page long and is dated 9/5/1840. Barton was a Quaker poet and a friend of Southey as well as one of Lamb's intimate circle of friends. A nice association. Later 3/4 maroon crushed levant over marbled boards by Bayntun, raised bands, t.e.g. Fine. There is a hole on the left edge of the loosely laid in letter where someone had removed it from a mounting

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