Old Lamps and New: An After-Dinner Chat.

London: Hutchinson and Co., [circa1889].

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. First edition. Decorative gray cloth stamped in two-tone gilt, black and blue. Advertisements in rear. Hinges cracked with preliminary pages loose and laid in, loss of spine ends, corners worn, thus good only with some pages unopened. Containing: "A chapter in the life of Henry Irving, Some reminiscences of Victor Hugo, "We take our pleasures sadly.", Mr. Labouchere tells me his story, English fiction according to "Ouida", On the upper Thames, At home with William Black, No longer a prision, Tennyson and Longfellow, Miss Braddon at home, Under the lion of St. Mark, English and American racecourses, Mary, the mais of the inn, Reminiscences of Southern's last party, George Stephenson, "Stone walls do not a prision make.", The king of the city, Some of my earliest reminiscences."

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Item #393815 Old Lamps and New: An After-Dinner Chat. Joseph HATTON.