Details
LAMB, Charles. A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret. London: Lee and Hurst, 1798.
8o (147 x 88 mm). (A few tiny marginal repairs.) Later calf gilt, edges gilt, by Pratt. Provenance: purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 6 March 1972.
FIRST EDITION, second (London) issue, with the final blank. Only two copies with the first issue (Birmingham) title-page are recorded by Roff. The new London title-page "must have been printed about the same time as the book, as the paper is identical." Leigh Hunt wrote to Shelley: "What a lovely thing is his 'Rosamund Gray'! How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest part of our nature in it!" Roff/Livingston, pp.35ff ("RARE IN ANY SHAPE").
8o (147 x 88 mm). (A few tiny marginal repairs.) Later calf gilt, edges gilt, by Pratt. Provenance: purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 6 March 1972.
FIRST EDITION, second (London) issue, with the final blank. Only two copies with the first issue (Birmingham) title-page are recorded by Roff. The new London title-page "must have been printed about the same time as the book, as the paper is identical." Leigh Hunt wrote to Shelley: "What a lovely thing is his 'Rosamund Gray'! How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest part of our nature in it!" Roff/Livingston, pp.35ff ("RARE IN ANY SHAPE").