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ELIA: First Series (and) ELIA: Second Series
by Lamb, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Slight rubbing to joints and edges, minor scuffing to boards, foxing to versos of endpapers and blank endsheets, old owner name
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Edward Moxon, 1835. New Edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to joints and edges, minor scuffing to boards, foxing to versos of endpapers and blank endsheets, old owner name to front blank leaves, overall very good. 2 volumes; [4], 340; xiii, [1], 295 pp.; full 19th-century calf by J. Clarke, spines gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, all edges marbled, marbled endpaper. Handsome edition of Lamb's essays, first published in 1823 (first series, as "Elia: Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine") and 1833 (second series, as "Last Essays of Elia") and considered among the greatest examples of the form. Lamb died in 1834.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20758
- Title
- ELIA: First Series (and) ELIA: Second Series
- Author
- Lamb, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight rubbing to joints and edges, minor scuffing to boards, foxing to versos of endpapers and blank endsheets, old owner name
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Chanticleer Books
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