The Essays of Elia
by Lamb, Charles; With an introduction by George E. Woodberry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Bath, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very lightly worn blue cloth covers with simple gilt title on spine, binding tight, pages bright, clean, and very good. "The present edition of Lamb's Essays is an exact reprint of the text of the original edition of "The Essays of Elia" (1823) and "The Last Essays of Elia" (1833). The portrait of Lamb has been newly edtched from the engraving of Hancock's drawing (1798). The vignette of Lamb's house at Enfield, in which many of the Elia Essays were written, is from an early photograph loaned by Mr. E. E. North." . Very Good. Hardcover. 1896.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 095154
- Title
- The Essays of Elia
- Author
- Lamb, Charles; With an introduction by George E. Woodberry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; ESSAYS; CHARLES LAMB
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...