The complete works in prose and verse of Charles Lamb. . From the original editions, with the cancelled passages restored, and many pieces now first collected. Edited and prefaced by R. H. Shepherd. With portraits and facsimile of a page of the Dissertation upon roast pig.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139957
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],776p., plates (one folded) . facsim.., port. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth century half calf; red morocco over boards; red spine label, gilt lettered; marbled endpapers; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly in the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Richard Herne Shepherd (1842-1895)