[Lamb, Charles-- Excessively Rare King and Queen of Hearts, Lamb's First Book for Children] The King and Queen of Hearts, Showing how notably the Queen made her Tarts and how scurvily the Knave stole them away: with other particulars belonging thereunto

[Lamb, Charles]

Verlag: [Thos. Hodgkins], [London], 1805

Beschreibung

16mo. (11.7 x 9.4 cm, leaves) 16 pp. Three-quarter 19th Century calf with attractive marbled paper with gilt decorative ruling, title and date gilt-lettered on spine. Printed on facing versos and rectos, with 15 exquisite and colorful hand-colored engravings (including title vignette). Considered to be Lamb's first book for children and one of the earliest published by William Godwin, who used Thomas Hodgkins as his agent. The poem is one of the rarest children's books of this period, seldom turning up in the marketplace. See Osborne p.100. Edges close-trimmed with some loss to headlines and to final lines of text (including loss of imprint), closed tear at gutter of last 4 leaves repaired with archival tape, [B3] with lower outer corner torn away resulting in loss of text (1.8 x 5 cm at largest point), second and third leaves bound out of order, lacking original wrappers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6340

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Lamb, Charles-- Excessively Rare King and ...

Verlag: [Thos. Hodgkins], [London]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1805