CHARLES LAMB, a Memoir by Barry Cornwall, 1866

CHARLES LAMB, a Memoir
by Barry Cornwall

1866, London, Edward Moxon & Co, Dover Street

First edition, St. Mark's School Prize Edition; 252 pages;
fine binding with gold emblem for
St. Mark's School (Southborough, Massachusetts; founded 1865, one of the oldest private boarding schools in the Northeast);

Bookplate : "St. Mark's School Livingston Parsons Prize ..."

Red full calf hard cover, 6 x 9" octavo, gilt spine titles, decor; gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, friend of Coleridge et al; known for "Tales from Shakespeare (with Mary Lamb, his sister)

1st edition/prize edition....$ 300........................................ price reduced to $ 185.