Author: LAMB, CHARLES Title: The 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. Hardcover. 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. Everyman's Library #14, an entry in EL's Essays series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- An ex-library copy, in 'flatback' binding style 1, full orange cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed black spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, black topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library limited to inked notation on front free endpaper and slip pasted to rear paste-down; also with some darkish soiling to cloth; interior is tightly-bound and unmarked.; Ex-Library; 16mo (6 - 7 in. tall); xviii, 327, 4 (ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Everyman's Library Editions
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