1870 The Complete Correspondence & Works of Charles Lamb; With an Essay on His Life & Genius by Thomas Purnell. Published in London by E. Moxon, Sons and Co. Volume one has a frontispiece of Charles and his sister, Mary Lamb. These have a blue straight grained Moroccan leather spine, that has faded to dark green. The spines are pretty worn from use and age, there is also some rubbing on the edges. Overall they are in good condition, all hinges are fine and they have tight bindings.
✨Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb. Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".
