Hardcover
1903 · New York
by Lucas, E.V. (Editor)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. 1903 - 1905. Hardcover. VG, clean, tight contents with many pages uncut. Art school ex-lib. with usual marks but never checked out. Some general shelf wear to covers and light foxing to page bottoms when closed. Gilded top edge wearing a bit.. All volumes: burgundy cloth/boards; gilt spine lettering on brown leather title block. With bw frontis engraving/tissue guard and occasional illustrations. TEG; deckled edges. Vol. I: xiii, [1], 557 pp.; Vol. II: viii, [1], 475 pp.; Vol. III: xii, 506 pp.; Vol. IV: xviii, [1], 643 pp.; Vol. V: xiii, [1], 387 pp.; Vol. VI: xxiv, 548 pp.; Vol. VII: xxii, [1], paginated continuously from Vol. VI to page 1025. A heavy set at 14 pounds (6.4 kilos) and will require extra postage. The complete set of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by E.V. Lucas. The volumes are titled Miscellaneous Prose 1798-1834; Elia and the Last Essays of Elia; Books for Children; Dramatic Specimens and the Garrick Plays; Poems and Plays; Letters (Vols. VI and VII). The Lucas edition of Lamb's Works, 7 vols (1903-05) set new standards for antiquarian work on a modern writer. (David Hill Radcliffe) Scarce as a complete set.
(Inventory #: 158551)