[LAMB (Charles)]. Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1823. First edition, second issue, 8vo (187 x 110 mm), [4], 341, [1]pp., with half-title, full blue crushed morocco by Root & Son (signed on front turn-in), five raised bands with gilt tooling to compartments, boards with double fillet border and corner pieces, silk endpapers and inner gilt dentelles, silk marker ribbon, text in very clean condition, tope edge gilt, others uncut, with the nautical bookplate of George G. Stevenson, a fine copy. [Sold with:] ----. The Last Essays of Elia. Being a Sequel to Essays Published under that Name.1823

London: Edward Moxon, First edition, 8vo (187 x 110 mm), xii, 283, [1]pp., with half-title, full blue crushed morocco by Root & Son (signed on front turn-in), five raised bands with gilt tooling to compartments, boards with double fillet border and corner pieces, silk endpapers and inner gilt dentelles, silk marker ribbon, text in very clean condition, tope edge gilt, others uncut, with the nautical bookplate of George G. Stevenson, a fine copy. A collection of essays written by Charles Lamb which first appeared in The London Magazine in 1820. Lamb's essays were of immense popularity due to their conversational nature and personal tone. Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Roff, p. 149; Wise III, p. 50.