_Note._ This was issued in weekly parts and a new title-page
printed when bound. The Dedication of the first volume is to
Charles Lamb. To these volumes he contributed “The Months,” April
16, 1826 [Vol. II.]; “Reminiscence of Sir Jeffrey Dunstan,” June
22, 1826 [Vol. II.]; “Captain Starkey,” July 21, 1825 [Vol. I.];
“The Ass,” October 5, 1825 [Vol. I.]; “In Re Squirrels,” October
17, 1825 [Vol. I.]; “Remarkable Correspondent,” May i, 1825 [Vol.
I.]; “The Humble petition of an unfortunate Day,” August 12, 1826
[Vol. I.]; “Quatrains to the Editor,” July 9, 1825 [Vol. I.].
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1889, £2 8_s._
1827.
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_Title_: THE | TABLE BOOK; | by WILLIAM HONE. | with Engravings. [Motto]
Every Saturday. | London: | Published for William Hone, | by Hunt and
Clarke, York-Street, | Covent-Garden, | 1827, 8vo
_Collation_: Frontispiece [Petrarch’s Inkstand], 1 page, Title, 1 page,
Preface, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 870.
_Note._ This, like the other books of Hone, was issued in Parts,
every Saturday, commencing January 1, 1827, Lamb’s contributions
being, p. 454, “Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton,” and p. 387, “Gone
or Going,” and the Introductions to the Garrick plays, which are on
pages 56, 67, 80, 96, 112, 128, 150, 162, 178, 192, 209, 224, 243,
256, 280, 291, 304, 320, 338, 352, 368, 394, 400, 417, 440, 449,
467, 480, 500, 514, 530, 547, 578, 595, 610, 642, 663, 676, 690,
704, 724, 737, 770, 784, 800, 817. In a note addressed to Hone,
dated January 27, 1827, written on the fly-leaf of a copy of
“Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,” Lamb proposed this series,
to which the editor gladly acceded. The copy named is now owned in
New York.
_Price._ £1 10_s._
1830.
[22]
_Title_: MEMOIRS | of | THE LIFE AND TIMES | of | DANIEL DEFOE: |
containing | a review of his writings, | and | his opinions upon a
variety of important matters, civil and | ecclesiastical. | By Walter
Wilson, Esq. Of the Inner Temple. | In Three volumes. | London: | Hurst,
Chance, and Co. | 1830. 3 vols 8vo
_Collation_: Vol. I. Bastard Title, 1 page, Frontispiece, 1 page, Title,
1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. lxii. Errata, 1 page. pp. 482.--Vol. II.
Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page, pp. xviii. Errata, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. 527.--Vol. III. Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp.
xviii. Errata, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 685.
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