Half green morocco binding with marbled boards and endpapers, five raised bands to the spine, gilt lettering and blind ruling to each band and top edge gilt. In very good condition with fading/browning to the spine and edges and minor rubbing to corners and tips of the spine. Light foxing to outer edges, sometimes affecting the margin and a touch of foxing to sporadic pages throughout the book including free endpapers and title page. Binder's stamp 'Bickers & Son. Ltd, London. S.W.1.' and previous owner's bookplate to verso of ffep. 143pp plus Bibliography page. 'Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 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 (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William 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"'.