Lamb Lynton Harold (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Cities and towns Great Britain. Britain; description and travel. Britain; customs and culture. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Cities and towns Great Britain. Britain; description and travel. Britain; customs and culture. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lynton Harold Lamb (illustrator). First edition. A lovely, first limited edition of this poem of ecstatic devotion, A Song to David is Christopher Smart"s lyrical masterpiece. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This copy is a first, limited edition of this work, being copy number one hundred and twenty eight of six hundred copies.Illustrated with a blue and black frontispiece illustration by Lynton Lamb.This is a majestic 1763 poem by Christopher Smart, long misunderstood by contemporaries as the work of a "madman", this is a devotional masterpiece, likely composed during his confinement in London asylums, exalts King David before culminating in a fervent embrace of Christ. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Externally, lovely. The slightest rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly age toned. One or two slight handling marks to rear endpapers. Dust wrapper smart. Slightly faded to perimeters with offsetting. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the off chip and closed tear. One or two slight handling marks to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

First Edition, No. 105 of 600 copies. Original vellum-backed boards, patterned-paper boards by Mansell, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Title and text printed in black and blue. Clear removable, archival protective cover fitted to the book. Folio in 4s (304 x 194mm), pp. xxi, [1 (blank)], 40, [2 (blank)]. A book in Very Good condition; spine slightly darkened, extremities lightly rubbed and minimally chipped, fore-edge of lower board bumped.

Postcard with painting of Rialto Bridge by Canaletto. Postmarked 1970. Ruckled with damp but entirely legible. An amusing communication, beginning 'Thought I would let you know that we were not involved in the great tornado that sunk a voporetto [sic] on Lirica 4, and that the Hotel alla Fava is still very comfortable.' Refers to the Lambs' 'self-contained eyrie' and 'the weak fast coffee which tastes of mud; but clearly and obviously isn't'. Asks why 'that in some ways great and good man Ruskin should have blamed Canaletto for "his culpable lack of detail"?' Ends 'Much learning doth make thee mad.' Scan on application.