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[LAMB, Charles].

The King and Queen of Hearts.

The King and Queen of Hearts.

Showing how notably the Queen made her Tarts, and how scurvily the Knave stole them away...

Stock Code 102210

London, for M.J. Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1805 [1902].

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In 1805, the British essayist and then would-be poet Charles Lamb wrote a children's poem, known as 'The King and Queen of Hearts: with the Rogueries of the Knave who stole the Queen's Pies', which gives each line of the original nursery rhyme (c.1782), followed by a poem commenting on the line. According to Lamb biographer E.V. Lucas, a copy of the 1805 edition of this poem in book form was discovered almost 100 years later, and it was reissued by Lucas in a 'facsimile' edition in 1902. It is this facsimile edition that is for sale here.

Facsimile reprint of either the 1805 edition or 1809 reissue (the work first published in 1805); 16mo; 15 wood-engraved illustrations by William Mulready, some contents loose or working loose; original facsimile printed wrappers, some wear to spine.

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From the collection of well-known Swiss collector Martin Kaiser.

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