_Title_: THE LAST ESSAYS | of | ELIA. | Being | a sequel to Essays
published under | that Name. | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. |
1833. | 12mo
_Collation_: Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. xii. pp. 283.
Size 8 × 5.
_Note._ The Preface, somewhat changed, was originally published in
the _London Magazine_ and signed Phil-Elia.
_Price._ Johnson Sale, New York, 1890 [Full morocco, uncut, with First
Series], $42.00. Sotheran, London, 1890 [Full calf], £5 10_s._ [Both
Series, half morocco,] £2 10_s._ J. Pearson, 1890, Both Series [original
boards, uncut], £10 10_s._ Scribner & Welford [morocco gilt on the
rough], $60.00.
1796.
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_Title_: ORIGINAL LETTERS, Etc. | of | SIR JOHN FALSTAFF | AND | HIS
FRIENDS: | now first made public by a Gentleman, | a descendent of Dame
Quickly, | from | genuine manuscripts | which have been in the
possession | of the Quickly family | near four hundred years. | London:
| Printed for the author; | and published by | Messrs. G. G. & J.
Robinsons, Paternoster-Row: | J. Debrett, Piccadilly: and Murray and |
Highley | No. 32, Fleet Street, | 1796 Small 8vo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. xxiv. pp. 123.
Size 6¼ × 4.
_Note._ Canon Ainger states [See page 404 “Elia”] that Southey
believed Lamb had a hand in this work. The Preface in particular
bears some traces of his peculiar vein. See also Letter from Gutch
to Mr. Bliss, page 155, Hazlitt’s “Charles and Mary Lamb.”
_Price._ New York, 1886, [calf, gilt,] $15.00. Robson & Kerslake [calf,
uncut], £3 3_s._ 1888.
* * * * *
III. THE “ELIA” ESSAYS.
All Fools’ Day April, 1821, _London Magazine_.
Amicus Redivivus Dec. 1823, “ “
Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour
of Married People (A) Sept. 1822, “ “
Barbara S---- April, 1825, “ “
Barrenness of the Imaginative Jan. }
Faculty in the Productions } 1825, _Athenæum_.
of Modern Art Feb. }
Blakesmoor in H.----shire Sept. 1824, _London Magazine_.
Captain Jackson Nov. 1824, “ “
Chapter on Ears (A) March, 1821 “ “
Character of the Late Elia Jan. 1823, “ “
Child Angel: A Dream (The) June, 1823, “ “
Christ’s Hospital Five and
Thirty Years Ago Nov. 1820, “ “
Complaint of the Decay of Beggars
in the Metropolis (A) June, 1822, “ “
Confessions of a Drunkard Aug. 1822, “ “
Convalescent (The) July, 1825, “ “
Detached Thoughts on Books
and Reading July, 1822, “ “
Dissertation upon Roast Pig (A) Sept. 1822, “ “
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