LAMB, Charles (1775-1834). Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine . London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey, 1823. -- The Last Essays of Elia. Being a sequel to essays published under that name . London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1833. Together 2 volumes, 8 o and 12 o (181 x 111 mm). 6-page publisher's advertisements at end of vol. I; half-title in vol. II. (A few insignificant marginal repairs, vol. II lacks advertisements.) Uniformly bound in black straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance : John Payne Collier (ex dono inscription on verso of half-title in volume two: "J. Payne Collier Given to me by C. Lamb.") -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 16 January 1969. "I AM, IN PLAINER WORDS, A BUNDLE OF PREJUDICES--MADE UP OF LIKINGS AND DISLIKINGS" (Elia) FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of volume one. PRESENTATION COPY, given by Lamb to the noted Shakespearan scholar, John Payne Collier (1789-1883). His mother "was a special favourite of Lamb and Hazlitt, and [the Collier's] lived in friendly intercourse with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and other writers of note" (DNB). Flattering comments by Wordsworth and Lamb encouraged Collier to publish his poem "The Poet's Pilgrimage" in 1825, after he had issued it anonymously in 1822. His research into the works of Shakespeare and the English stage led him to bibliographic study, publishing, among other works, a descriptive catalogue of the Bridgewater Library. He is most remembered for the case involving the Perkins Folio, or second folio of Shakespeare "discovered" by Collier with significant 17th-century manuscript changes. Collier based his edition of Shakespeare's works on these changes, which were later proved to be modern forgeries. Whether Collier himself was the forger or a victim of fraud was left undecided, although many other documents which passed through his hands were also later deemed forgeries. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Eleven of the twenty-four essays here reprinted were originally published in Elia. Second Series , an unauthorized collection published in Philadelphia, 1828. The editor of that collection included several essays in error (they were by Bryan Waller Proctor and Allan Cunningham). Ashley III, pp.50, 53; Grolier English 74; Roff/Livingston, pp. 149ff, 185ff. (2)
LAMB, Charles (1775-1834). Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine . London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey, 1823. -- The Last Essays of Elia. Being a sequel to essays published under that name . London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1833. Together 2 volumes, 8 o and 12 o (181 x 111 mm). 6-page publisher's advertisements at end of vol. I; half-title in vol. II. (A few insignificant marginal repairs, vol. II lacks advertisements.) Uniformly bound in black straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance : John Payne Collier (ex dono inscription on verso of half-title in volume two: "J. Payne Collier Given to me by C. Lamb.") -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 16 January 1969. "I AM, IN PLAINER WORDS, A BUNDLE OF PREJUDICES--MADE UP OF LIKINGS AND DISLIKINGS" (Elia) FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of volume one. PRESENTATION COPY, given by Lamb to the noted Shakespearan scholar, John Payne Collier (1789-1883). His mother "was a special favourite of Lamb and Hazlitt, and [the Collier's] lived in friendly intercourse with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and other writers of note" (DNB). Flattering comments by Wordsworth and Lamb encouraged Collier to publish his poem "The Poet's Pilgrimage" in 1825, after he had issued it anonymously in 1822. His research into the works of Shakespeare and the English stage led him to bibliographic study, publishing, among other works, a descriptive catalogue of the Bridgewater Library. He is most remembered for the case involving the Perkins Folio, or second folio of Shakespeare "discovered" by Collier with significant 17th-century manuscript changes. Collier based his edition of Shakespeare's works on these changes, which were later proved to be modern forgeries. Whether Collier himself was the forger or a victim of fraud was left undecided, although many other documents which passed through his hands were also later deemed forgeries. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Eleven of the twenty-four essays here reprinted were originally published in Elia. Second Series , an unauthorized collection published in Philadelphia, 1828. The editor of that collection included several essays in error (they were by Bryan Waller Proctor and Allan Cunningham). Ashley III, pp.50, 53; Grolier English 74; Roff/Livingston, pp. 149ff, 185ff. (2)
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