London: Printed by Wilks and Taylor, Chancery Lane | For G. G. and J.
Robinsons, Paternoster Row | 1800. 8vo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Advertisement, 1 page. (Dramatis Personæ,
reverse.) pp. 73. Size 8⅜ × 5.
_Note._ Lamb wrote the Epilogue to this tragedy, which was produced
on December 13, 1800, at Drury Lane. It was a complete failure.
[See Letter of Lamb to Manning, December 16, 1800.]
_Price._ $3.50.
1802.
[7]
_Title_: JOHN WOODVIL, | a TRAGEDY | by | C. LAMB. | to which are added,
| Fragments of Burton, | the author of | The Anatomy of Melancholy. |
London: | Printed by T. Plummer, Seething-Lane: | For G. and J.
Robinson, Paternoster-Row | 1802. 16mo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 page. pp. 128. Size
6½ × 4⅛.
_Note._ Lamb had written this three years earlier than date of
publication, and had showed it to Southey and Coleridge, who tried
to dissuade him from publishing it. It was offered to John Kemble
in 1799, but declined. The original title for the play was “Pride’s
Cure.”
_Price._ Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [calf, gilt top, uncut], $19.00.
Scribner & Welford, 1889 [boards, uncut], $30.00. Dodd & Mead [half
morocco, yellow edges], $25.00. Sotheby’s, 1889 [autograph from
author], £11 15_s._ Pearson, 1889 [uncut, original boards], £5 10_s._
1807.
[8]
_Title_: MRS. LEICESTER’S SCHOOL. | or, | The History | of | several
Young Ladies, | related by themselves. | London: | Printed for M. J.
Godwin, at the Juvenile | Library, No. 41, Skinner Street | 1807. 16mo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. viii. pp. 178. Advertisement on reverse of last page.
_Note._ Lamb wrote for this volume “The Witch Aunt,” “First Going
to Church,” “The Sea Voyage.” The other tales were by Mary. The
copyright for this and “Tales from Shakespear” was sold to Baldwin
and Cradock on July 21, 1836, by Mary Ann Lamb, for £15. The
original holder, according to the Indenture, was William Godwin.
_Price._ The Second Edition, 1809, fetched at Sotheby’s, 1888 [original
boards], £16 10_s._ [No quotation found on the First Edition.]
1807.
[9]
_Title_: FAULKENER: | A | TRAGEDY. | as it is performed | at | the
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE | By WILLIAM GODWIN | London: | Printed for
Richard Phillips, 6, Bridge-Street, | Black-Friars, | By Richard Taylor
and Co, Shoe Lane, | 1807. 8vo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page, Preface, 1 page, Prologue, 1 page, Dramatis
Personæ, 1 page. pp. 80. Size 8½ × 5.
_Note._ The Prologue was by Charles Lamb. The tragedy was produced
at Drury Lane, December 16, 1807. The subject was taken from an
incident in De Foe’s “Roxana.”
_Price._ Spencer, 1890 [half morocco], £2 5_s._
1807.
[10]
_Title_: TALES | FROM | SHAKESPEAR. | Designed | for the use of young
Persons. | by CHARLES LAMB. | Embellished with Copper-Plates. | In two
volumes. | Vol I | (Vol II) | London: | Printed by Thomas Hodgkins, at
the Juvenile Li-| brary, Hanway-Street (opposite Soho-Square), |
Oxford-Street; and to be had of all | Booksellers |. 1807. | 2 vols
12mo. Size 6⅞ × 4.
_Collation_: Vol I. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. ix.
Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 235. 10 illustrations. Vol. II.
Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 page, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. 261. 3 pages of advertisements. Colophon: Printed by T.
Davison, Whitefriars.
_Note._ The greater number of these Tales are written by Mary,
viz.: “Tempest,” “As You Like It,” “Winter’s Tale,” “Midsummer
Night,” “Much Ado,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Cymbeline,” “All’s
Well that Ends Well,” “Pericles,” “Taming of Shrew,” “Comedy of
Errors,” “Measure for Measure,” “Twelfth Night;” the others by
Charles Lamb: viz., “Othello,” “Merchant of Venice,” “Macbeth,”
“King Lear,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet,” “Timon of Athens.” These
volumes seem to have been issued in sheep, there being no copies in
original boards known. Each volume has ten illustrations, engraved
by William Blake, from the designs of Mulready.
_Price._ Spencer Catalogue, 1890, in the original calf, £22. Dodd &
Mead, 1886 [morocco, gilt top], $75. W. E. Benjamin, 1887 [morocco,
gilt], $50.00. Sotheby’s, 1888 [morocco, gilt edge], £10. Pickering &
Chatto [original calf], £14 14_s._
1808.
[11]
_Title_: THE | ADVENTURES | of | ULYSSES | by | CHARLES LAMB | London: |
Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars | for the Juvenile Library, No. 41
Skinner-| Street, Snow Hill | 1808 16mo
_Collation_: Engraved Frontispiece, 1 page, Vignette Title, 1 page,
Title, 1 page. pp. vi. pp. 203. Advertisement on reverse of page 203.
Size 6⅞ × 4⅛.
_Note._ “I have done two books since the failure of my farce: they
will both be out this summer. The one is a juvenile book--the
‘Adventures of Ulysses,’ intended to be an introduction to the
reading of Telemachus! It is done out of the Odyssey, not from the
Greek (I would not mislead you) nor yet from Pope’s Odyssey, but
from an older translation of one Chapman.” See Letter to Manning,
February 26, 1808.
_Price._ Johnson Sale, New York, 1890 [morocco, gilt], $20. Sotheby’s,
1888 [calf], £3 7_s._ 6_d._--uncut original boards, £3 3_s._ Sotheby’s,
1889 [calf], £5 12_s._ 6_d._ Robson & Kerslake, 1889 [calf, gilt], £8
8_s._ Sotheby’s, 1889 [calf], £2 6_s._ J. Pearson [calf, by Bedford], £6
6_s._ Scribner & Welford [original boards, uncut], $16.00.
1808.
[12]
_Title_: SPECIMENS | of | ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, | who lived | about
the time of SHAKESPEARE: | with Notes. | By Charles Lamb. | London: |
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, | Paternoster-Row. | 1808,
small 8vo
_Collation_: Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. xii. pp. 484.
Size 5 × 7¾.
_Note._ “It is done out of the old Plays at the Museum and out of
Dodsley’s Collection, etc. It is to have Notes.” [See Letter to
Manning, February 26, 1808.]
_Price._ Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890 [morocco, gilt], $7.00. Sotheran,
1890 [uncut], £2 2_s._ J. Pearson, 1890 [half calf, gilt top, uncut], £3
15_s._ Scribner & Welford [boards, uncut], $16.50.
1809.
[13]
_Title_: POETRY | for | CHILDREN | ENTIRELY ORIGINAL | By the Author of
| “Mrs. Leicester’s School” | In Two volumes | vol I | (vol II) |
London: | Printed for M. J. Godwin, | At the Juvenile Library, No. 41,
Skinner Street, | 1809. 2 vols 18mo
_Collation_: Vol. I. Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of
Contents 1 page. pp. 103. 1 page of Advertisement. Colophon: Mercier and
Shervet, Printers, No. 32, Little Bartholomew Close, London. Vol. II.
Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents, 1 page. pp. 104.
Colophon: Printed by Mercier and Chervet, No. 32, Little Bartholomew
Close, London. Bound in gray paper with green leather backs.
_Note._ Lamb contributed to this “The Three Friends,” “To a River
in which a Child was Drowned,” “Queen Oriana’s Dream,” besides
other poems not certainly identified; the rest were by Mary. The
Frontispiece to Vol. I. is a little boy seated in a Landscape, with
the line “Keep on your own side, do Grey Pate. Page 29.” Vol. II.,
the Frontispiece is “Penitent Richard standing in a Landscape,”
with three lines of poetry. At the time of the Locker Catalogue,
1886, only one perfect copy was known [see _Gentleman’s Magazine_,
July, 1877, for account of its discovery]. It was reprinted at
Boston in 1812. A Mrs. Tween, daughter of Lamb’s friend Mr. Randall
Norris, has a copy of “Poetry for Children” given her by Mary Lamb.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1888, £35 [Leycester’s Sale, November 12-14].
1811.
[14]
_Title_: PRINCE DORUS: | or, | FLATTERY PUT OUT OF COUNTENANCE. | A
Poetical Version of an Ancient Tale. | Illustrated with a series of
Elegant Engravings. | London: | Printed for M. J. Godwin, | at the
Juvenile Library, No 41 Skinner St; | and to be had of all Booksellers
and Toymen in the | United Kingdom. | 1811. 12mo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. 31. Illustrations:
Frontispiece to face Title, “The Enchanted Cat;” p. 6, “Minon Asleep;”
p. 7, “The Transformation;” p. 10, “Prince Dorus and his Maids;” p. 19,
“Claribel Carried Off;” p. 21, “Visit to the Beneficent Fairy;” p. 23,
“Prince Dorus Offended;” p. 29, “Truth Brought Home;” p. 31, “Self
Knowledge obtains its Reward.” Size 5½ × 4⅜.
_Note._ Only a few copies known to exist. The authenticity of this
volume is established by a reference in Crabb Robinson’s Diary, May
15, 1811. There are two editions, plain and colored, not differing
in any other particular. The back cover should be preserved, as it
contains a curious woodcut of Prince Dorus (The Long-nosed King)
and Aged Fairy. There are copies with Title-page put on cover
within a key border.
_Price._ Dodd & Mead [1888], $175; colored [1888], morocco, $300.
Sotheby’s, 1888, £30. Sotheby’s, 1889 [colored, dated 1818], £45.
Sotheby’s, 1890, £29 10_s._ [original boards].
1811 (?).
[15]
_Title_: BEAUTY | AND | THE BEAST: | or | A rough outside with A |
Gentle heart | A Poetical version of an Ancient Tale | Illustrated with
a | Series of Elegant Engravings | And Beauty’s Song at Her Spinning
Wheel | Set to Music by Mr Whitaker | London: | Printed for M. J.
Godwin, | At the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street; | and to be had
of all Booksellers and Toymen | throughout the United Kingdom. | Price
5s. 6d. coloured, or 3s. 6d. plain | Square 16mo, n.d.
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp. 32. Colophon,
London: Printed by B. M‘Millan, | Bow Street, Covent Garden |.
Illustrations: Frontispiece, “Beauty in her prosperous state.” Face page
4, “Beauty in a State of Adversity.” Page 11, “The Rose Gather’d.” Page
16, “Beauty in the Enchanted Palace.” Page 19, “Beauty visits her
Library.” Page 21, “Beauty entertained with invisible music.” Page 28,
“The absence of Beauty Lamented.” Page 29, “The Enchantment Dissolved.”
Music: Beauty’s Song [music and second verse on reverse]. Size 5⅞ ×
4½.
_Note._ The original is in paper-covered boards, roxburghe backs,
with woodcut, underneath which are written the words “‘Go, be a
Beast!’ Homer.” The engravings are supposed to be by Maria Flaxman,
sister of the sculptor. On page 3 there is a water-mark dated 1810.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, July 9, 1889 [“Sale of Original Drawings to Martin
Chuzzlewit”], etc., fetched £34. Sotheby’s [plates misplaced], 1890,
£20.
1813.
[16]
_Title_: REMORSE. | A TRAGEDY, | in FIVE ACTS. | By S. T. COLERIDGE |.
[Quotation] London: | printed for W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. | 1813 |
Price three shillings. | 8vo.
_Collation_: Title, 1 page. pp. viii. Prologue, 1 unnumbered page,
Dramatis Personæ, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 72. Size 5½ × 8¾.
_Note._ The Prologue was written by Lamb and spoken by Mr. Carr.
The Play, written in 1797, was originally entitled “Osorio.” It was
brought out, revised, and re-named “Remorse,” at Drury Lane, on
January 23, 1813, and had a run of twenty nights. The London
_Times_ of January 25 said of the Prologue: “The Prologue was, we
hope, by some ‘d--d good natured friend,’ who had an interest in
injuring the play. It was abominable.”
_Price._ Scribner & Welford [half calf], $6.50.
1814.
[17]
_Title_: SOME | ENQUIRIES | INTO | THE EFFECTS | of | FERMENTED LIQUORS.
| By a Water Drinker. | London: | Printed for J. Johnson and Co. | St.
Paul’s Church yard | 1814. 8vo
_Collation_: Frontispiece, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Table of Contents, 1
page. pp. xxxii. pp. 368. Five illustrations, including Frontispiece.
Size 8⅛ × 5½.
_Note._ Charles Lamb contributed sixteen pages to this volume
anonymously, viz.: pp. 201-216, entitled “Confessions of a
Drunkard.” The author and compiler was Basil Montagu. The Essay,
with a few additional pages, was reprinted in the _London
Magazine_, August, 1822, and signed “Elia.”
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf gilt], £2, 10_s._ Hitchman’s, 1890
[boards, uncut], 21_s._ Sotheran’s [calf, by Bedford], £3 10_s._
Pearson’s, 1889 [boards, uncut], £1 5_s._ Scribner & Welford, $25.00
[calf].
1818.
[18]
_Title_: THE | WORKS | OF | CHARLES LAMB. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | vol I |
(vol II) | London: | Printed for C. and J. Ollier, | Vere-street,
Bond-street | 1818. 2 vols 16mo
_Collation_: Vol. I. Title, 1 page. pp. ix. 1 unnumbered page. pp. 291.
Vol. II. Title, 1 page, Contents, 1 unnumbered page, Inscription, 1
unnumbered page. pp. 259. Advertisement, 2 pages. Size 6⅞ × 4⅛.
_Note._ The dedication is to Coleridge, and in it Lamb says: “My
friend Lloyd and myself came into our first battle (authorship is a
sort of warfare) under cover of the great Ajax.” There are two
different issues of this date, one on thicker paper and a trifle
taller than the other.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1887 [half calf], £1 5_s._ [calf, uncut], £2.
Sotheran [original boards, with book label of Wm. Hazlitt], £5 5_s._
Sotheby’s, 1889 [original boards], £2 10_s._ J. Pearson, 1889 [original
boards, uncut], £4 4_s._ Scribner & Welford [original boards, uncut],
$25.00.
1823.
[19]
_Title_: ELIA. | Essays which have appeared under that signature | in
the | London Magazine. | London: | Printed for Taylor and Hessey, | 93,
Fleet Street, | and 13, Waterloo Place. | 1823. 12mo
_Collation_: Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page, Contents, 2
unnumbered pages, pp. 341. Size 7¾ × 5.
_Note._ These Essays were contributed mainly to the _London
Magazine_ between August, 1820, and October, 1822.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1887 [calf], £1. [Elia and Last Essays together]
Sotheby’s, 1888 [russia, uncut], £11 15_s._
1825-6.
[20]
_Title_: THE | EVERY-DAY BOOK: | or, the | GUIDE TO THE YEAR; | relating
the | Popular Amusements, | Sports, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and
Events, | incident to | the 365 Days | in past and present Times; |
being | A Series of 5000 Anecdotes and Facts; | forming | a History of
the Year, | A calendar of the Seasons, | and | a chronological
Dictionary of the Almanac; | with a variety of | important and diverting
information, | for daily use and Entertainment, | Compiled from
authentic sources | by William Hone | [Quotation from Herrick] |
Illustrated by Numerous Engravings | London: | Printed for William Hone,
45, Ludgate Hill, | (to be published every Saturday, price Threepence,)
| and sold by All booksellers in Town and Country. | 1825. 2 vols. 8vo.
_Collation_: Vol. I. Title, 1 page, Double Title, 1 page, Explanatory
Address, 1 page, Dedication, 1 unnumbered page. Preface, 1 unnumbered
page, Illustration, “Bona Dea,” 1 page. pp. 852. Vol. II. Frontispiece,
1 page, Title, 1 page, Dedication, 1 page, Preface, 1 unnumbered page.
pp. viii. pp. 832. General Index, 19 pages.
_Note._ This was issued in weekly parts and a new title-page
printed when bound. The Dedication of the first volume is to
Charles Lamb. To these volumes he contributed “The Months,” April
16, 1826 [Vol. II.]; “Reminiscence of Sir Jeffrey Dunstan,” June
22, 1826 [Vol. II.]; “Captain Starkey,” July 21, 1825 [Vol. I.];
“The Ass,” October 5, 1825 [Vol. I.]; “In Re Squirrels,” October
17, 1825 [Vol. I.]; “Remarkable Correspondent,” May i, 1825 [Vol.
I.]; “The Humble petition of an unfortunate Day,” August 12, 1826
[Vol. I.]; “Quatrains to the Editor,” July 9, 1825 [Vol. I.].
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1889, £2 8_s._
1827.
[21]
_Title_: THE | TABLE BOOK; | by WILLIAM HONE. | with Engravings. [Motto]
Every Saturday. | London: | Published for William Hone, | by Hunt and
Clarke, York-Street, | Covent-Garden, | 1827, 8vo
_Collation_: Frontispiece [Petrarch’s Inkstand], 1 page, Title, 1 page,
Preface, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 870.
_Note._ This, like the other books of Hone, was issued in Parts,
every Saturday, commencing January 1, 1827, Lamb’s contributions
being, p. 454, “Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton,” and p. 387, “Gone
or Going,” and the Introductions to the Garrick plays, which are on
pages 56, 67, 80, 96, 112, 128, 150, 162, 178, 192, 209, 224, 243,
256, 280, 291, 304, 320, 338, 352, 368, 394, 400, 417, 440, 449,
467, 480, 500, 514, 530, 547, 578, 595, 610, 642, 663, 676, 690,
704, 724, 737, 770, 784, 800, 817. In a note addressed to Hone,
dated January 27, 1827, written on the fly-leaf of a copy of
“Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,” Lamb proposed this series,
to which the editor gladly acceded. The copy named is now owned in
New York.
_Price._ £1 10_s._
1830.
[22]
_Title_: MEMOIRS | of | THE LIFE AND TIMES | of | DANIEL DEFOE: |
containing | a review of his writings, | and | his opinions upon a
variety of important matters, civil and | ecclesiastical. | By Walter
Wilson, Esq. Of the Inner Temple. | In Three volumes. | London: | Hurst,
Chance, and Co. | 1830. 3 vols 8vo
_Collation_: Vol. I. Bastard Title, 1 page, Frontispiece, 1 page, Title,
1 page, 1 unnumbered page. pp. lxii. Errata, 1 page. pp. 482.--Vol. II.
Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page, pp. xviii. Errata, 1 unnumbered
page. pp. 527.--Vol. III. Bastard Title, 1 page, Title, 1 page. pp.
xviii. Errata, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 685.
_Note._ On pages 428-9, Vol. III., appears Lamb’s criticism on “De
Foe’s Works of Genius.” [Mr. Wilson says: “The following remarks
upon De Foe’s Works of Genius are from the pen of the Author’s
highly esteemed friend, Charles Lamb, and are original.”] Pages
636, 7, 8, 9, Lamb’s remarks on “De Foe’s Secondary Novels” appear.
These are of so characteristic a nature that they are well worth
perusal. [Wilson adds: “To recall the attention of the public to
his other fictions, the present writer is happy to enrich his work
with some original remarks upon his Secondary Novels, by his early
friend Charles Lamb, whose competency to form an accurate judgment
upon the subject, no one will doubt who is acquainted with his
genius.”]
_Price._ Scribner & Welford [Full calf], $18.00.
1830.
[23]
_Title_: ALBUM VERSES, | WITH A FEW OTHERS, | by CHARLES LAMB, |
[vignette] London: | Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street. | 1830 12mo
_Collation_: Title, 1 page. pp. vii. pp. 150. Size 7⅝ × 4¾.
_Note._ Dedication to Moxon. “Enfield, 1st June,” 1830. This volume
contains “Album Verses,” “Miscellaneous,” “Sonnets,” “Commendatory
Verses,” “Acrostics,” “Translations from the Latin of Vincent
Bourne,” “Pindaric ode to the Treadmill,” “Epicedium,” and “The
Wife’s Trial.”
_Price._ Scribner & Welford [uncut, original boards], $15.00. Sotheby’s,
1889 [calf], £1 5_s._ Sotheby’s, 1890 [original boards], £1 10_s._
1831.
[24]
_Title_: SATAN IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; | with the Whole Process of | his
COURTSHIP and MARRIAGE, | and who Danced at the Wedding. | by | an Eye
Witness [Engraved Title] London: | Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street. |
M.DCCC.XXXI.
_Collation_: Engraved (wood) Frontispiece, 1 page, Engraved (wood)
Title, 1 page, Dedication, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 36. [Frontispiece and
four illustrations.] Size 6¼ × 3¾.
_Note._ See “Letter to Moxon, October 24, 1831.” Illustrations,
[woodcuts,] should face pages 8, 21, 32, with tail-piece [“To
delicate bosoms, that have sighed over the ‘Loves of the Angels,’
this poem is with tenderest regard consecrated”]. The original
cover should be preserved.
_Price._ Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf, gilt edge], £2 3_s._ Sotheby’s, 1890
[original wrappers], £8.
1833.
[25]
_Title_: THE WIFE: | A Tale of Mantua, | A Play, In Five Acts, | By |
James Sheridan Knowles, | Author of “Virginius” “The Hunchback” &c |
London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | 1833. 8vo
_Collation_: Advertisement, 1 page, Title, 1, Dedication, 1 page,
Preface, 1 page, Prologue, 1 page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 page. pp. 120.
Size 8¼ × 5.
_Note._ The Epilogue was written by Charles Lamb and spoken by Miss
Ellen Tree. Knowles, in the edition of his plays 1833, speaks of
his debt to Lamb, etc.
_Price._ $2.50.
1833.
[26]
_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.
[27]
_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, “ “
Distant Correspondents Mar. 1822, “ “
Dream-Children; A Reverie Jan. 1822, _London Magazine_.
Ellistoniana Aug. 1831, _Englishman’s Mag._
Genteel Style in Writing (The) March, 1826, _New Monthly Mag._
Grace before Meat Nov. 1821, _London Magazine_.
Imperfect Sympathies Aug. 1821, “ “
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire July, 1821, “ “
Modern Gallantry Nov. 1822, “ “
Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist Feb. 1821, “ “
My First Play Dec. 1821, “ “
My Relations June, 1821, “ “
Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago Oct. 1831, _Englishman’s Mag._
New Year’s Eve Jan. 1821, _London Magazine_.
Old and the New Schoolmaster (The) May, 1821, “ “
Old Benchers of the Inner Temple (The) Sept. 1821, “ “
Old China March 1823, “ “
Old Margate Hoy (The) July, 1823, “ “
On Some of the Old Actors Feb. 1822, “ “
On the Artificial Comedy of the
Last Century April, 1822, “ “
On the Acting of Munden Oct. 1822, “ “
Oxford in the Vacation Oct. 1820, “ “
Poor Relations May, 1823, “ “
Popular Fallacies: { Jan. to Sept. } _New Monthly Mag._
{ 1826, }
1. That a Bully is always a Coward “ “
2. That Ill-gotten Gain never prospers “ “
3. That a man must not laugh at his own jest “ “
4. That such a one shows his breeding, etc. “ “
5. That the Poor copy the vices of the Rich “ “
6. That Enough is as good as a Feast _New Monthly Mag._
7. Of two Disputants, the Warmest is
generally in the Wrong “ “
8. That verbal Allusions are not Wit,
because they will not bear translation “ “
9. That the Worst Puns are the Best “ “
10. That Handsome is that Handsome Does “ “
11. That we must not look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth “ “
12. That Home is Home though it is never so Homely “ “
13. That you must love me and love My Dog “ “
14. That we should rise with the Lark “ “
15. That we should lie down with the Lamb “ “
16. That a sulky temper is a Misfortune “ “
Praise of Chimney-Sweepers (The) May, 1822, _London Magazine_.
Quakers’ Meeting (A) April, 1821, “ “
Rejoicings upon the New Year’s Coming of Age Jan. 1823, “ “
Sanity of True Genius May, 1826, _New Monthly Mag._
Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney Sept. 1823, _London Magazine_.
South-Sea House (The) Aug. 1820, “ “
Stage Illusion Aug. 1825, “ “
Superannuated Man (The)
To the Shade of Elliston Aug. 1831, _Englishman’s Mag._
Tombs in the Abbey (The) Oct. 1823, _London Magazine_.