Research Catalog

Title

Poems on the death of Priscilla Farmer / by her grandson Charles Lloyd.

Author

Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839.

Publication

Bristol : Printed by N. Biggs, and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1796.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
• Biggs, Nathaniel
• Phillips, James (Bookseller)

Description

27, [1] pages; 38 cm

Note

• Lloyd's second volume of poetry, written in memory of his grandmother.
• Introductory "Sonnet" (page 3) is by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "The grandam" (pages 25-27) is by Charles Lamb in memory of Lamb's grandmother Mary Field (cf. Thomson).
• Folio, unsigned [watermark: 1794/J WHATMAN].
• Page 23 misnumbered 22; a variant has page 23 correctly numbered (cf. ESTC).
• Epigraph: "Death! Thou hast visited that pleasant place, / Where in this hard world I have happiest been" -- William Lisle Bowles.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalogue
• Roff, R. Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb
• Thomson, J. C. Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Lloyd, C. 1796

OCLC

37244917

Author

Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839.

Title

Poems on the death of Priscilla Farmer / by her grandson Charles Lloyd.

Imprint

Bristol : Printed by N. Biggs, and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1796.

Edition

[First edition].

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalogue, T122530

Roff, R. Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, pages 11-15

Thomson, J. C. Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, pages 6-7

Local Note

Berg copy 1: With page 23 misnumbered 22. -- Bound in original marbled paper wrappers; housed in a brown silk chemise within a brown morocco pull-off case, with gilt title. -- From the library of Owen D. Young.

Berg copy 2: With page 23 misnumbered 22. -- Upper original marbled paper wrapper only (repaired and apparently washed; color muted), lacking lower wrapper, backstrip, and blank end leaf; housed in a silk and velvet folder within a half blue morocco book-shaped folding case. -- Sold to Dean Sage by J. Pearson & Co. in December, 1896 (letter laid in). -- From the library of William T. H. Howe.

Berg copy 3: Presentation copy: inscribed from Lloyd to a relative, "S. Galton". -- With page 23 misnumbered 22. -- Bound by Francis Bedford in full green morocco; spine gilt tooled with fillets, decorations, and title: "Poems by Lloyd and Lamb"; French fillet to upper and lower covers, double gilt fillet to cover edges, inner dentelles with floral band, red endpapers. -- From the library of Owen D. Young.

Pforzheimer copy: With holograph corrections and cancellations on pages 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, probably in Lloyd's hand. -- With page 23 misnumbered 22. -- Bound in original marbled paper wrappers, lacking backstrip and loosely stitched; laid into a green silk folder within a full green morocco folder by Root & Son; gilt fillets and decorations on covers, gilt letters on upper cover, gilt fillets on cover edges, gilt decorations on turn-ins. -- With the armorial bookplate of Charles Lloyd. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the J. B. Clemens sale, Parke-Bernet galleries January, 1945, lot 307, through A. S. W. Rosenbach.

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Added Author

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Biggs, Nathaniel, printer.

Phillips, James (Bookseller), bookseller.

Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), 1874-1939, former owner.

Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839, former owner.

Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839, inscriber.

J. Pearson & Co., bookseller.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Root & Son, binder.

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, bookseller.

Sage, Dean, 1841-1902, former owner.

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962, former owner.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Lloyd, C. 1796

Pforz+ (Lloyd, C. Poems on the death of Priscilla Farmer. 1796. 1st ed. Bristol)