BOOK
To the dear memory of a frail good man ...
- Date
- 1836
- By
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Samuel, Stuart Montagu, Sir, Bart., 1856-; Turnbull, Alexander, 1868-1918; Edward Moxon & Co; Bradbury & Evans; Riviere & Son
- Notes
Title from 1st line of poem.
"W. Wordsworth"--P. 7.
Proof copy printed by Evans of Bradbury & Evans for Moxon in 1836. Cf. Todd.
Todd, F.M. Wordworth's monody on Lamb. (Modern language review, 50 (1955)), p. 48-50.
Wise, T.J. Bibliography Wordsworth, 22
Cornell. Cornell Wordsworth collection, 95
Book binding Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2006
Binding: brown crushed morocco, gold tooled upper cover with roses and bees within border (inner triple fillet and double outer fillet) enclosing the legend: Epitaph. Republished collected works 1837. The lower cover has the same design enclosing within smaller gold tooled frame the legend: The flower for me, the honey for thee. Spine with raised bands and gold tooled compartments, gold tooled edges, gold tooled turn-ins decorated with gold bee stamp in corners, blue endpapers, untrimmed text edges. Gilt binder's stamp on upper pastedown: R. Riviere & Son, for S.M. Samuel, 1893. Spine title: Epitaph. Wordsworth. With author corrections. ND. Provenance: two holograph manuscript notes by John Carter, Wordworth's clerk, tipped in (with watermark "1827" on paper); "Davis" (typesetter?) handwritten in pencil on p. [1]; pencil ms. corrections throughout text; bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull. Acc. 352313.
Digital image available: Book binding, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.
- Source URL
- Book binding https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE589615
- Other Versions
- Online version: To the dear memory of a frail good man ...
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection
- Other Titles
- Title from reference source: Epitaph on Charles Lamb; Title from reference source: Written on the death of Charles Lamb; Title from reference source: Ode to the memory of Charles Lamb
- Publisher
- [London : E. Moxon & Co., 1836]
- Format
- 7, [1] p. (the final page blank) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
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