THE POETICAL WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB Lamb, Charles Poetry

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) started writing poetry in the early 1790s and together with Coleridge wrote sonnets for the Morning Post. Through his friendship with Coleridge, Charles and his sister, Mary, got to know the Wordsworths, Southey, Hazlitt and other major literary figures; their various houses became important gathering places for literary friends. Octavo: 117, [1, blank] pp. with a portrait frontispiece, extra title page vignette, and 3 full-page plates, all steel engravings with guards, by Radclyffe, McGoffin, et al, after Devereux, Schmoltze, and Wageman. In the publisher's deluxe brown morocco binding, with dark-brown ruled and ornamental borders, with floral spandrels, gilt-stamped ornamental pointed oval surround, with ornamental field, and bands with titling on the front and rear panels, and five raised bands, dark brown-stamped ruled bands, compartment rules, and floral compartment ornaments, and gilt-stamped titling on the spine. All edges gilt, with brown coated endpapers. Trace amount of rubbing along the extremities; else fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.