_Price._ Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [morocco uncut, gilt top], $28.00.
Sotheby’s, 1890 [original boards, uncut], £9.
1798.
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_Title_: A TALE | of | ROSAMUND GRAY | and | OLD BLIND MARGARET. | by
CHARLES LAMB. | London, | Printed for Lee and Hurst, | No. 32.
Pater-noster Row, | 1798. Small 8vo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Dedication, 1 page. pp. 134. Size 6⅝ ×
4⅛.
_Note._ Another edition was published the same year in Birmingham.
Printed for Thos. Pearson, pp. 134.
With the exception of the title-page this edition is identical with
the London one. Charles Lloyd’s father lived in Birmingham, and it
is suggested that a few copies had been struck off there.
[Dedication. “This Tale is inscribed in friendship to Marmaduke
Thompson, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.”]
_Price._ Dodd & Mead [morocco, gilt. Title in fac-simile], $50.00. New
York, 1885 [Full calf, by Bedford], $25.00.
1799.
[5]
_Title_: THE | ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY, | Volume I | Bristol: Printed by Biggs
and Co, For | T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, | London |
n,d. 16mo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Advertisement, 1 unnumbered leaf, Contents,
4 unnumbered pages, pp. 300. Size 6⅞ × 4½.
_Note._ This volume was edited by Robert Southey, and published by
Joseph Cottle. Among the distinguished contributors were Coleridge,
Southey, Charles Lloyd, George Dyer, Mrs. Opie, Joseph Cottle,
etc., etc. Lamb contributed “Living Without God in the World,” pp.
90-92. A second series was published the next year [See Letter to
Southey, November 28, 1798], which contained Coleridge’s Poem “This
Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, A Poem addressed to Charles Lamb of the
India House,” pp. 140-144.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1888 [original boards, uncut], £1. [calf] £1 5_s._
1800.
[6]
_Title_: ANTONIO: | A TRAGEDY | in Five Acts | by WILLIAM GODWIN |,
London: Printed by Wilks and Taylor, Chancery Lane | For G. G. and J.
Robinsons, Paternoster Row | 1800. 8vo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Advertisement, 1 page. (Dramatis Personæ,
reverse.) pp. 73. Size 8⅜ × 5.
_Note._ Lamb wrote the Epilogue to this tragedy, which was produced
on December 13, 1800, at Drury Lane. It was a complete failure.
[See Letter of Lamb to Manning, December 16, 1800.]
_Price._ $3.50.
1802.
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_Title_: JOHN WOODVIL, | a TRAGEDY | by | C. LAMB. | to which are added,
| Fragments of Burton, | the author of | The Anatomy of Melancholy. |
London: | Printed by T. Plummer, Seething-Lane: | For G. and J.
Robinson, Paternoster-Row | 1802. 16mo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 page. pp. 128. Size
6½ × 4⅛.
_Note._ Lamb had written this three years earlier than date of
publication, and had showed it to Southey and Coleridge, who tried
to dissuade him from publishing it. It was offered to John Kemble
in 1799, but declined. The original title for the play was “Pride’s
Cure.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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