Elia.

LAMB, CHARLES.

Verlag: London Taylor and Hessey, 1823

Beschreibung

8vo, pp [6], 341, [1], [6, adverts], half title, uncut in original drab boards, ?respined with original paper label laid down, a very good clean sound copy, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, with the half title and 2 addresses in the London imprint [q.v. Thomson LVIII]. This famous collection of essays, most of which had appeared already in the London Magazine, the rest in other periodicals, is now considered one of the classics of English romantic prose, though it was not received with any great favour at the time. It would not be reprinted until after Lamb's death in 1836, and Thomson quotes a Lamb letter of 1834 in response to a request for it 'The volume which you seem to want is not to be had for love or money. I with difficulty procuered a copy for myself.' Now, of course, it can be procured for money alone, and very little of it, while the sequel 'Last Essays' published by Moxon in 1833 is a common enough book in first edition. This first collection remains harder to find, especially in original boards; the retsoration to the spine of this one is so good that its extent and method is debatable, and the paper match - if that is what it is - so good that it is hard to detect. In short, we do not anticipate handling a better, more original, copy than this one. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29303

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Elia.

Verlag: London Taylor and Hessey

Erscheinungsdatum: 1823

Einband: Softcover