[LAMB, Charles (1775-1834)]. The New Year's Feast on his Coming of Age. London: S. and R. Bentley for J. Harris and Son, 1824. 18° (176 x 104mm). 12 half-page wood-engraved illustrations, all in publisher's hand-colouring. (Some soiling.) Original printed blue stiff paper wrappers (defective), morocco box. Provenance: 6th Marquess of Bath (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this versification of a prose composition published by Lamb in the London Magazine for January 1823. Moon H-576. -- BARBAULD, Anna Letitia (na©e Aikin). The Three Cakes; or, Harry, Peter, and Billy. A Tale in Verse, from the original in prose. London: S. and R. Bentley for John Harris, 1824. 18° (169 x 105mm). 4 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. (Tear in 2 leaves mended.) Modern boards. Based on a story from Berquin's L'ami des enfans. Moon H-36. -- And another (chapbook edition by Whitrow & Co. of The Three Cakes, with wood-engraved illustrations). (3)

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[LAMB, Charles (1775-1834)]. The New Year's Feast on his Coming of Age. London: S. and R. Bentley for J. Harris and Son, 1824. 18° (176 x 104mm). 12 half-page wood-engraved illustrations, all in publisher's hand-colouring. (Some soiling.) Original printed blue stiff paper wrappers (defective), morocco box. Provenance: 6th Marquess of Bath (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this versification of a prose composition published by Lamb in the London Magazine for January 1823. Moon H-576. -- BARBAULD, Anna Letitia (na©e Aikin). The Three Cakes; or, Harry, Peter, and Billy. A Tale in Verse, from the original in prose. London: S. and R. Bentley for John Harris, 1824. 18° (169 x 105mm). 4 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. (Tear in 2 leaves mended.) Modern boards. Based on a story from Berquin's L'ami des enfans. Moon H-36. -- And another (chapbook edition by Whitrow & Co. of The Three Cakes, with wood-engraved illustrations). (3)

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