Author: LAMB, CHARLES
Title: Essays of Elia -and- Last Essays of Elia (Everyman's Library #14)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1925. Leather. A 1925 reprint of the 1906 issuance. The prolific Charles Lamb (1775-1834) produced these two sets of essays on a wide variety of topics in 1823 and 1833 and had them published in London Magazine. With an introduction by Augustine Birrell. Includes a select bibliography. Everyman's Library #14, an entry in EL's Essays series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 2 maroon flexible leather variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling, floral & Celtic knotwork decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers; top edge gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A very well-preserved copy, though with prior owner's discreet signature to verso of front free endpaper, penciled tick-marks to t.o.c. and light chafing to leather at head of spine.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xviii, 327, 4 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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