Works of Charles Lamb. To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

by Thomas Noon Talfourd, one of his Executors by Charles Lamb

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First edition

First American edition. Frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Cloth faded, some fraying of cloth from rubbing, spotting of leaves, especially of the endpapers, with the signature of Elizabeth L. Cogswell, September 15th, 1838, East Windsor Hill on the endpapers and another of “E. S. Esq. 1840” with “Stephens Esq.” written below A very good copy. NCBEL 3:1226 for the first edition.

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