[Lambe (Thomas)] Lycidas..., woodcut tail-pieces, title and first 2ff. detached, for Thomas Pote, 1762 § "A Gentleman of Oxford". Mr Addison Turn'd Tory..., offsetting and foxing, for J. Baker, 1713 § [Woodward (Josiah)] Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady, title soiled, by J. Nutt, 1704 § Fielding (Henry) The Wedding-Day..., title with woodcut device, also woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, foxing and soiling, for A. Millar, 1743, first editions, second original wrappers, lacking lower wrapper, others disbound; and c.45 others, similar, 8vo (c.50)
⁂The first Lambe's only work, containing Lycidas, Delia, and Verses on the Death of the Marquis of Carmarthen (the pieces comprising his entire oeuvre); the volume was published to a mixed reception: The Monthly Review was direct: '...we conceive it impossible for [Lambe] to misemploy his time in any way more than attempting the province of poetry': The Critical Review discerned in Lambe 'a bloom of genius'.
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