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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb

Name: The Complete Works of Charles Lamb
Brand: Shapero Rare Books
SKU: 123925
Price: 80.00 GBP
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in Prose and Verse including 'Poetry for Children' and 'Prince Dorus', a new edition with two portraits and a facsimile.

Stock Code 123925

London, Chatto & Windus, 1897.

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A scarce 1897 Chatto & Windus edition, including two black and white portraits of the author, as well as an attached facsimile of Lamb's handwritten essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'.

8vo (19 x 13 cm); ownership inscription in pen to prelims, frontispiece portrait of the author as well as an additional portrait following the introduction, including a pasted in facsimile of Lamb's handwritten essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' with slight closed tear, marbled endpapers and edges; half brown calf, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments with raised bands, a touch of rubbing to spine and board edges, very good; [xv], 856.

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