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Bigelow, Brown and Co, Inc., January 0001. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/No Jacket. Black cloth covered binding with gilt decoration on the spine. Yellow text block for author and title on spine only. Previous owner's name on front endpage. Very nice condition.

London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Top edges gilt. Illustrated. Corners bumped

Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1854. Hardcover. Good. . Volume 4 only. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and edgewear. Labels of former owners on the front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned.

Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good -. 329 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Lamb's Works. Leather spine label in third compartment with gilt-tooled volume number. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. This is volume 5 from the five-volume set The Works of Charles Lamb. Contains letters, not previously published, from Charles Lamb to Coleridge, Wordsworth, and others. In Very Good- Condition: edges and boards are rubbed with minor loss at head of spine; loss of marbled paper along lower edge of front board; lacking lower section of final page of text, without loss of text; writing in pencil on back free endpaper; foxing, primarily on a few early pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

Forgotten Books, 2018. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Nabu Press, 2010-08-03. Paperback. Good.

NY.: A.C. Armstrong & Son., 1883.. Brown cloth decoratively stamped in black & gilt, brown coated endpapers.. Ex-library, pages 351-358 of Vol I torn at top of edge corners, but no text loss, Vol II has 1 sprung signature, Vol III has cracked hinge along contents page, all headers/footers worn: about VG for 1883.. 8vo. Vol I has frontis engraving of Lamb..

Armstrong, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. The Works of Charles Lamb in 5 Volumes. VG blue boards with red lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for book plates on front paste downs. No dust jackets; gilt top page edge. Each book about 8x 5.5". Fading on lettering on paper on some spines and shelf wear; some bumped or worn corners; webbing showing at FFEP on Volume I. Dates published 1884-1886. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

Hardback. New.

New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1871 Five volumes with marbling on pages edges have been rebound in blue cloth with red spine labels and gold gilt spine decoration. Current bindings show only minor edge wear and scuffing. . Cloth. Very Good.

GB: Methuen, 1903. Handsome half blue-black leather and marbled boards. Spine with 4 much raised bands and gold lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gold. Elaborate contemporary bookplate of T.S. Meldrum picturing a monk reading a book. Clean tight book but with quite heavy spotting to text edges. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrVG/No DW.

GB: Methuen, 1905. Handsome half blue-black leather and marbled boards. Spine with 4 much raised bands and gold lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gold. Elaborate contemporary bookplate of T.S. Meldrum picturing a monk reading a book. Clean tight book but with quite heavy spotting to text edges. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrVG/No DW.

GB: Methuen, 1903. Handsome half blue-black leather and marbled boards. Spine with 4 much raised bands and gold lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gold. Elaborate contemporary bookplate of T.S. Meldrum picturing a monk reading a book. Clean tight book but with quite heavy spotting to text edges. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrVG/No DW.

GB: Methuen, 1905. Handsome half blue-black leather and marbled boards. Spine with 4 much raised bands and gold lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gold. Elaborate contemporary bookplate of T.S. Meldrum picturing a monk reading a book. Clean tight book but with quite heavy spotting to text edges. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrVG/No DW.

Thomas Crowell. Good+. 1882. Hardcover. ; Complete 3 volumes in 5. Maroon cloth covers have wear to the extremities and scuffing but clean and in good+ condition. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet dated 1884. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. .

The Lamb Publishing Co, 1900. Book. Good. hardback. edition de-luxe. hardback, octavo, five volumes (of seven), lacking the two volumes of letters, undated but circa 1900 (preface dated 1888) burgundy cloth with rubbed paper titles to faded spines, top edges gilt, wear at head and tail of the volumes, binding remains tight, text unmarked, foxing to closed page edges, bookplate to front pastedowns, title pages with a colour frame, b&w plates..

London: Edward Moxon / Baldwin and Cradock, 1838 - 1841]. Complete in five hardback volumes, mixed editions. 12mo (17cm by 11cm), viii, 356pp; vi, 340pp; xv, 295pp; xii, 287pp; viii, 375pp. The Tales from Shakspeare volume includes 20 engraved plates and a title vignette. Uniformly bound in half brown calf, dark green boards. The bindings are rather rubbed and a little scuffed, and there is some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this set is in good condition. Volumes 1-3 are the prose works (dated 1838, no edition stated); volume 4 is the poetical works (dated 1841, fourth edition), and Tales from Shakspeare is the fifth volume (dated 1838, sixth edition).

A.C. Armstrong and Son, New York, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. [Fine Binding] 5 volume set. Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Gilt spine compartments. Some flaking, rubbing to leather spines. Bindings sound. All edges marbled. Marbled end sheets. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents:v. 1-2. Letters; v. 3. Elia. The last essays of Elia; v. 4-5. Rosamund Gray, Essays, etc. Poems. Album verses with a few others

New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1870 . Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A lovely five volume collection of the letters and poetry of this prominent English literary figure, in smart half calf bindings. A scarce five volume edition of the works of this English essayist, poet and antiquarian, published in New York by W. J. Widdleton.Consisting of an assortment of the poetry and letters of this literary personality, praised by his principal biographer E. V. Lucas as 'the most lovable figure in English literature'.Best known for his 'Essays of Elia', and the children's book 'Tales from Shakespeare' - co-authored with his sister Mary - Charles Lamb was friends with such literary luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt and Southey.With a frontispiece portrait of Lamb to volume I. With the contemporary inscription of Henry C. Eno to a front endpaper of volume I, dated 1870.With publisher's advertisements to the rear of each volume. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Bumping to… Read More

Boston, MA.: William Veazie. Very Good. 1865. Fine Binding. The books in this 5 Volume set are hall hard-bound in fine bindings of 1/2 blue crushed morocco leather with marbled paper covered boards, with gilt stamping and raised bands on the spines, done by Root & Son, and signed at the top of the front free end-page. The cover show a few small scuffs to the joints and corners, and light toning to the spines. The bindings are solid. The contents are bright and clean. .