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LAMB, Charles (1775-1834) and Mary LAMB (1764-1847). Mrs. Leicester's School: or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves. London: Richard Taylor for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1809.
12o (171 x 103 mm). Engraved frontispiece. One-page publisher's advertisement on I6v. (Without the two leaves of advertisements at end, small marginal repair on G11.) Blue crushed levant morocco gilt, covers, spine and turn-ins decorated with gilt tulips, pink watered-silk linings, original wrappers bound in at end, top edge gilt, by Wood; morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Walter Thomas Wallace (engraved bookplate), his collection sold Anderson Art Association, New York, 22-25 March 1920.
FIRST EDITION, the very fine Wallace copy. Of the ten pieces included in the collection, three are by Charles Lamb and 7 are by Mary. Roff presumes the book was written at Godwin's suggestion. Charles Lamb wrote to Coleridge on 7 June 1809: "I shall have to send you, in a week or two, two volumes of Juvenile Poetry, done by Mary and me within the last six months, and that tale in prose which Wordsworth likes so much, which was published at Christmas, with nine others, by us, and has reached a second edition." Ashley III, p.48; Roff/Livingston, pp.85-87.
12o (171 x 103 mm). Engraved frontispiece. One-page publisher's advertisement on I6v. (Without the two leaves of advertisements at end, small marginal repair on G11.) Blue crushed levant morocco gilt, covers, spine and turn-ins decorated with gilt tulips, pink watered-silk linings, original wrappers bound in at end, top edge gilt, by Wood; morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Walter Thomas Wallace (engraved bookplate), his collection sold Anderson Art Association, New York, 22-25 March 1920.
FIRST EDITION, the very fine Wallace copy. Of the ten pieces included in the collection, three are by Charles Lamb and 7 are by Mary. Roff presumes the book was written at Godwin's suggestion. Charles Lamb wrote to Coleridge on 7 June 1809: "I shall have to send you, in a week or two, two volumes of Juvenile Poetry, done by Mary and me within the last six months, and that tale in prose which Wordsworth likes so much, which was published at Christmas, with nine others, by us, and has reached a second edition." Ashley III, p.48; Roff/Livingston, pp.85-87.