_Price._ Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [calf, gilt top, uncut], $19.00.
Scribner & Welford, 1889 [boards, uncut], $30.00. Dodd & Mead [half
morocco, yellow edges], $25.00. Sotheby’s, 1889 [autograph from
author], £11 15_s._ Pearson, 1889 [uncut, original boards], £5 10_s._
1807.
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_Title_: MRS. LEICESTER’S SCHOOL. | or, | The History | of | several
Young Ladies, | related by themselves. | London: | Printed for M. J.
Godwin, at the Juvenile | Library, No. 41, Skinner Street | 1807. 16mo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. viii. pp. 178. Advertisement on reverse of last page.
_Note._ Lamb wrote for this volume “The Witch Aunt,” “First Going
to Church,” “The Sea Voyage.” The other tales were by Mary. The
copyright for this and “Tales from Shakespear” was sold to Baldwin
and Cradock on July 21, 1836, by Mary Ann Lamb, for £15. The
original holder, according to the Indenture, was William Godwin.
_Price._ The Second Edition, 1809, fetched at Sotheby’s, 1888 [original
boards], £16 10_s._ [No quotation found on the First Edition.]
1807.
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_Title_: FAULKENER: | A | TRAGEDY. | as it is performed | at | the
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE | By WILLIAM GODWIN | London: | Printed for
Richard Phillips, 6, Bridge-Street, | Black-Friars, | By Richard Taylor
and Co, Shoe Lane, | 1807. 8vo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Preface, 1 page, Prologue, 1 page, Dramatis
Personæ, 1 page. pp. 80. Size 8½ × 5.
_Note._ The Prologue was by Charles Lamb. The tragedy was produced
at Drury Lane, December 16, 1807. The subject was taken from an
incident in De Foe’s “Roxana.”
_Price._ Spencer, 1890 [half morocco], £2 5_s._
1807.
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_Title_: TALES | FROM | SHAKESPEAR. | Designed | for the use of young
Persons. | by CHARLES LAMB. | Embellished with Copper-Plates. | In two
volumes. | Vol I | (Vol II) | London: | Printed by Thomas Hodgkins, at
the Juvenile Li-| brary, Hanway-Street (opposite Soho-Square), |
Oxford-Street; and to be had of all | Booksellers |. 1807. | 2 vols
12mo. Size 6⅞ × 4.
_Collation_: Vol I. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. ix.
Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 235. 10 illustrations. Vol. II.
Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. 261. 3 pages of advertisements. Colophon: Printed by T.
Davison, Whitefriars.
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