INVENTORY #115437
Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F.S.A.
ROBINSON, Henry Crabb; SADLER, Thomas (ed.)
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The barrister Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) was perhaps better known as a diarist and society leader. These volumes contain his reminiscences of many central figures in the English Romantic movement, including Coleridge, Charles Lamb, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and others. Binding by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-1886), originally from Austria-Hungary, later owner of a bindery in London. The books are signed "Bound by Zaehnsdorf for C. Scribner's Sons New York."
Publication Info
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co
- Edition: First Edition
- Date Published: 1869
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
3 vols.: xxiii, ii, 509; iv, 529, [1]; v, 598 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait in vol. I. Half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Bindings signed by Zaehnsdorf. Dampstains to first pages of vol. I. Ink signatures on preliminary pages in vols. I and II and another ink signature on p. 1 of vol. III. Corners bumped.