2 volumes. 8vo. 1st editions, 1st issues. Presentation copy from Lamb to Shakespeare scholar J. Payne Collier, with Collier's inscription on verso of half-title page in 'Last Essays'. Rebound by Riviere in full dark green straight-grain morocco, with gilt decoration to spine, turn-ins, and margins of boards. A.e.g.; marbled endpapers. Minimal wear to joints. Later owner's bookplate to front paste-down of each volume. Slight foxing to first and last couple of pages in each volume. V2 has small, shallow staining to top edge of first and last couple of pages. V1 has occasional soiling or foxing to leaves, and foxing to fore-edge of textblock. A few leaves in V1 show faint diagonal creases to upper coner of a few leaves, now straightened (probably during rebinding), with tiny amount of loss to upper corner of one leaf. A handsome set overall. VG. Seller Inventory # 3033289

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Title: Elia: Essays Which Have Appeared Under That ...

Publisher: Printed for Taylor and Henry; Edward Moxon, London

Publication Date: 1823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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