[CHARLES LAMB] (1775-1834)

Elia. Essays Which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823.

First edition, first issue of the first series of Charles Lamb's miscellaneous essays, which had appeared in the London Magazine between 1820 and 1823. The pseudonym "Elia" was the name of a former Italian clerk at the South Sea House, where both Charles and his brother had worked. The essays, cast as if written by an old-fashioned narrator, include the famous "Dissertation on Roast Pig."

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