The Complete Works of Charles Lamb

£80 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A scarce 1897 Chatto Windus edition, including two black and white portraits of the author, as well as an attached facsimile of Lamb's handwritten essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'. 8vo (19 x 13 cm); ownership inscription in pen to prelims, frontispiece portrait of the author as well as an additional portrait following the introduction, including a pasted in facsimile of Lamb's handwritten essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' with slight closed tear, marbled endpapers and edges; half brown calf, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments with raised bands, a touch of rubbing to spine and board edges, very good; [xv], 856.

• Binding: Hardcover

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