Books Written or Edited by Bertram Dobell
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, pp. 394, 5s. net; hand-made paper copies, 12s. net
SIDELIGHTS ON CHARLES LAMB
With a Facsimile of Lamb's Handwriting
This volume contains much hitherto unknown matter relating to "Elia" and his Friends, and a considerable number of Essays by Lamb, now first identified and reprinted.
"The least circumstance connected with Elia is of such interest to all his readers that Mr. Dobell's book should have a large public: and no editor or biographer of Lamb can afford to be without it."—E. V. Lucas, in The Bookman.
"Mr. Bertram Dobell, in compiling the book which he fittingly calls 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb, has done good service to lovers of the most loveable of English essayists. . . . With or without its blemishes we are grateful to Mr. Dobell for the work he has here accomplished."—Morning Post.
"Mr. Dobell is nothing if not a devoted Elian, and in pronouncing these articles and fragments to have come from the pen of the great essayist he relies upon intuition. . . . Mr. Dobell has dressed them in handsome form, and we think his book will rank in standard 'Eliana' as the most important contribution since the appearance of Mr. Babson's volume forty years ago."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"No indulgence is required for Mr. Dobell's 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb,' which is by no means a bad book, but a quite agreeable book, a collector's book, a book of genial hobbies and loving research."—The Times.
