Bibliohoax - signed by the author

ACKROYD, Peter:

THE LAMBS OF LONDON.

London: Chatto & Windus, [2004]. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 216 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. 

Domestically sequestered Mary Lamb spends her life in the company of her brother Charles, who is equally constrained by having to work at the East India Company while trying to write. Mary accompanies Charles to a bookseller's shop and therein falls for the bookseller's son, seventeen-year-old antiquarian William Ireland. Charles buys a book from the young bookseller that once belonged to William Shakespeare, or did it?
. Fine / fine. Item #463

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