Item #305119 "Southey's Recollections of Charles Lamb" [transcript]. Robert Southey.

Southey on Lamb

"Southey's Recollections of Charles Lamb" [transcript].

July 2, 1836.

Price: $275.00


About the item

4 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet, transcription by John Matthew Gutch. 8vo. Southey on Lamb. Creased from prior folding, some discoloration and wear along margins and central crease. In custom red cloth case. Provenance: Robert S Pirie (bookplate).

Item #305119

J.M. Gutch's transcription of Southey's Recollections of Charles Lamb, taken from The Life by Robert Southey by his son Charles Cuthbert Southey, and here presented to Edward Moxon, publisher of Lamb's Album Verses. John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) was Lamb's contemporary, schoolfellow, and lifelong friend. He was the proprietor of “Felix Farley's Bristol Journal” in which some Lamb writing appeared, and was the author of Caraboo, the narrative of a famous 19th-century hoax.