_Title_: BEAUTY | AND | THE BEAST: | or | A rough outside with A |
Gentle heart | A Poetical version of an Ancient Tale | Illustrated with
a | Series of Elegant Engravings | And Beauty’s Song at Her Spinning
Wheel | Set to Music by Mr Whitaker | London: | Printed for M. J.
Godwin, | At the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street; | and to be had
of all Booksellers and Toymen | throughout the United Kingdom. | Price
5s. 6d. coloured, or 3s. 6d. plain | Square 16mo, n.d.
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. 32. Colophon,
London: Printed by B. M‘Millan, | Bow Street, Covent Garden |.
Illustrations: Frontispiece, “Beauty in her prosperous state.” Face page
4, “Beauty in a State of Adversity.” Page 11, “The Rose Gather’d.” Page
16, “Beauty in the Enchanted Palace.” Page 19, “Beauty visits her
Library.” Page 21, “Beauty entertained with invisible music.” Page 28,
“The absence of Beauty Lamented.” Page 29, “The Enchantment Dissolved.”
Music: Beauty’s Song [music and second verse on reverse]. Size 5⅞ ×
4½.
_Note._ The original is in paper-covered boards, roxburghe backs,
with woodcut, underneath which are written the words “‘Go, be a
Beast!’ Homer.” The engravings are supposed to be by Maria Flaxman,
sister of the sculptor. On page 3 there is a water-mark dated 1810.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, July 9, 1889 [“Sale of Original Drawings to Martin
Chuzzlewit”], etc., fetched £34. Sotheby’s [plates misplaced], 1890,
£20.
1813.
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_Title_: REMORSE. | A TRAGEDY, | in FIVE ACTS. | By S. T. COLERIDGE |.
[Quotation] London: | printed for W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. | 1813 |
Price three shillings. | 8vo.
_Collation_: Title, 1 page. pp. viii. Prologue, 1 unnumbered page,
Dramatis Personæ, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 72. Size 5½ × 8¾.
_Note._ The Prologue was written by Lamb and spoken by Mr. Carr.
The Play, written in 1797, was originally entitled “Osorio.” It was
brought out, revised, and re-named “Remorse,” at Drury Lane, on
January 23, 1813, and had a run of twenty nights. The London
_Times_ of January 25 said of the Prologue: “The Prologue was, we
hope, by some ‘d--d good natured friend,’ who had an interest in
injuring the play. It was abominable.”
_Price._ Scribner & Welford [half calf], $6.50.
1814.
[17]
_Title_: SOME | ENQUIRIES | INTO | THE EFFECTS | of | FERMENTED LIQUORS.
| By a Water Drinker. | London: | Printed for J. Johnson and Co. | St.
Paul’s Church yard | 1814. 8vo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents, 1
page. pp. xxxii. pp. 368. Five illustrations, including Frontispiece.
Size 8⅛ × 5½.
_Note._ Charles Lamb contributed sixteen pages to this volume
anonymously, viz.: pp. 201-216, entitled “Confessions of a
Drunkard.” The author and compiler was Basil Montagu. The Essay,
with a few additional pages, was reprinted in the _London
Magazine_, August, 1822, and signed “Elia.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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