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DOVES BINDERY--Charles LAMB (1775-1834). [The Works], edited by Alfred Ainger. London: R. & R. Clark for Macmillan, 1891-1898.
7 volumes, 8° (702 x 115mm). Half-titles, engraved frontispiece after G.J. Joseph in vol. I of The Letters. (Some very light marginal browning.) Crushed tan goatskin by The Doves Bindery, signed on lower turn-ins 'THE . DOVES . BINDERY 18 C - S 98', flat spines gilt in compartments, titled in the second and fourth, volume numbers in the third, The Letters with volume numbers in fifth, other compartments densely gilt with heart, and open- and closed-dot tools, and gouges, gilt-ruled board-edges, turn-ins ruled in gilt with cornerpieces of heart and tulip tools, gilt edges gauffered with dots (some very light superficial rubbing on extremities of spines and boards, spines and areas of boards very lightly faded, some minor, light marking at foot of spines). Provenance: [probably purchased from The Doves Bindery by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, vide infra] -- J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles (bookseller's tickets on some rear endleaves).
A SEVEN-VOLUME SET OF LAMB'S WORKS BOUND BY THE DOVES BINDERY. This set is most probably bound to the pattern described by M. Tidcombe as 'Catalogue' no. 390 (The Doves Bindery, 1991), which is a missing pattern for a seven-volume set of Lamb's Works (mis-dated 1897). Tidcombe states that two sets bound to this patten -- one in brown (presumably this set) and another in green -- were sold to Scribner's on 6 December 1898 and 24 February 1899. The works comprising this set are Lamb's The Essays of Elia; Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays; Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse; Tales from Shakespeare; The Letters (2 volumes); and A. Ainger's Charles Lamb. All are reprints of the first Macmillan editions. (7)
7 volumes, 8° (702 x 115mm). Half-titles, engraved frontispiece after G.J. Joseph in vol. I of The Letters. (Some very light marginal browning.) Crushed tan goatskin by The Doves Bindery, signed on lower turn-ins 'THE . DOVES . BINDERY 18 C - S 98', flat spines gilt in compartments, titled in the second and fourth, volume numbers in the third, The Letters with volume numbers in fifth, other compartments densely gilt with heart, and open- and closed-dot tools, and gouges, gilt-ruled board-edges, turn-ins ruled in gilt with cornerpieces of heart and tulip tools, gilt edges gauffered with dots (some very light superficial rubbing on extremities of spines and boards, spines and areas of boards very lightly faded, some minor, light marking at foot of spines). Provenance: [probably purchased from The Doves Bindery by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, vide infra] -- J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles (bookseller's tickets on some rear endleaves).
A SEVEN-VOLUME SET OF LAMB'S WORKS BOUND BY THE DOVES BINDERY. This set is most probably bound to the pattern described by M. Tidcombe as 'Catalogue' no. 390 (The Doves Bindery, 1991), which is a missing pattern for a seven-volume set of Lamb's Works (mis-dated 1897). Tidcombe states that two sets bound to this patten -- one in brown (presumably this set) and another in green -- were sold to Scribner's on 6 December 1898 and 24 February 1899. The works comprising this set are Lamb's The Essays of Elia; Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays; Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse; Tales from Shakespeare; The Letters (2 volumes); and A. Ainger's Charles Lamb. All are reprints of the first Macmillan editions. (7)
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