Lamb's Essays : A Biographical Study
Boston: D Lothrop Company, 1891.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #16665
Light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Gift inscription from editor, Elizabeth Deering Hanscom, one of the first PhD women to graduate from Yale. Her Christmas 1891 gift is to her uncle, Maine newspaper owner Alpheus Augustus Hanscom. "Other writers we are content to know simply as writers; Charles Lamb we must know as a man. If excuse be needed for this volume, it is to be found in this fact. It seemed possible to select and unite such essays as were more directly autobiographical, adding to these a series of annotations, taken largely from the works of Lamb and his contemporaries, and thus to throw, if not new, yet stronger, light on the personality of the gentle Elia." - Preface by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom. Wonderful dedication from the editor: "To My Mother And Father : I dedicate the first fruits of the education I owe to their love and care." ; 281 pages; Signed by Editor.
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