Charles Lamb’s Specimens of Dramatic English Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare, Including the Extracts from the Garrick Plays, Now First Edited Anew by Israel Gollancz (Vols 1 & 2)

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pp. xxix, 310 + 11 (plates); xiii, 356 + 12 (plates). No. 74 / 100 copies printed for sale in England. There were also 50 copies for sale in the US. For this edition, Gollancz’s text is dated, revised & corrected with the Garrick extracts restored & incorporated chronologically. Cloth gilt lettered & decorated with a heraldic device on front boards. Spines a little darkened & cloth slightly foxed & soiled. Edges untrimmed & mostly unopened. Some offsetting at end papers & tissue-guarded plates; text stock unaffected aside from occasional spots of foxing at edges. A heavy set which will require additional postage.