Male : Essayist & Poet. Clerk in E India offices. Devoted life to sister Mary. Unstable. Wrote letters. Died from erysipelas after falling on a walk. Associated with the Lake Poets. Wrote many of his pieces for "The London Magazine" as Elia

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1775 Date of Death : 1834 Age : 59

Pseudonyms : Elia

Other Work : Clerk

Education : Christ's Hospital School

1796-1800
Poems on Various Subjects by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1796 Cottle, Bristol) - includes 4 sonnets by Lamb
Blank verse (1798 T Bensley) - with Charles Lloyd
A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret (1798 Lee & Hurst)

1801-1810
John Woodvil : A Tragedy (1802 T Plummer, London)
The King and Queen of Hearts (children's verses) (1805 Godwin's Juvenile Library) - wrappers
[It wasn't until 1891 that a copy of this turned up
Originally priced at 1/- plain & 18d coloured]
Tales from Shakespeare (1807 T Hodgkins) - 2 vols. with Mary Lamb
The Adventures of Ulysses (1808 Godwin's Juvenile Library) - wrappers) - with ML
Offered in 1997 for £850
Specimen's of English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare (1808 Longmans)
Mrs Leicester's School (1809 Godwin's Juvenile Library) - with ML. Anon
Poetry for Children (1809 Godwin's Juvenile Library) - 2 vols. with ML. Anon
(1872 Pickering. 2nd Ed)
A Book Explaining the Ranks and Dignities of British Society (1809 Tabart & Co) - boards

1811-1820
Prince Dorus (1811 Godwin's Juvenile Library) - wrappers. Mulready
Beauty and the Beast (1811 Godwin's Juvenile Library) (1887 Field & Tuer, London)
Mr H, or Beware a Bad Name (1806 PP) (1813 Carey US) - farce
Some Enquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors by Basil Motagu (1814 London) - incl a Lamb essay
Tales from Shakespeare (1816 M J Godwin, London.3rd Ed)
The Works of Charles Lamb : 1st Collected Edition (1818 for C & J Ollier, London) - 2 vols

1821-1830
The Essays of Elia which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine
(1823 Taylor & Hessey) - anonymous. boards. 2 vols
The Last Essays of Elia (1823 Carey & Lea, Pennsylvania) (1833 Moxon) - boards
Album Verses with a Few Others (1830 Edward Moxon) - boards

1831-1840
Satan in Search of a Wife by an Eye-Witness (1831 Moxon)
Essays to Elia (1835 Baudry's European Library, Paris)
Elia (First & Second Series) (1835 Moxon) - 2 vols
The Prose Works (1835 Moxon) - 3 vols
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets : Who lived about the Time of Shakespeare
(1835 Moxon) - 2 vols
The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of His Life (1837 Moxon) - 2 vols
The Works of Charles Lamb (1838 C & J Ollier)

1841-1900
The Poetical Works (1841 Bohn)
Final Memorials, Letters not published before (1848 Moxon) - 2 vols
The Works (1859 Moxon. New Ed)
Ellana : Hitherto Uncollected Writings (1864 Moxon)
The Complete Correspondence and Works .. with an Essay on His Life & Genius (1870 Moxon) - 4 vols
Poems, Letters and Remains. Now first collected (1874 Chatto & Windus) - boards
Letters and Writings : Temple Edition (1875 Gibbings, London) - 6 vols. 135 sets
The Life, Letters & Writings (1876 Moxon) - 6 vols
Essays of Elia : The Temple Edition (1884 Putnam, NY)
Shakespeare for Children (1885 Chatto & Windus. New Ed) - John Moyr Smith
The Essays of Elia (with) Last Essays of Elia (1888 Dent) - 2 vols. Herbert Railton
Prince Dorus (1889 Leadenhall Press) - 500
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (1895 Sampson Low) - C O Murray & R Paterson
Tales from Shakespeare (1899 S T Freemantle, London) - Robert Anning Bell
Tales from Shakespeare (1899 Dent Temple Classics) - Arthur Rackham
Tales from Shakespeare (c1900 Nister)
The Life, Letters and Writings (c1900 Constable. Enfield Edition) - 6 vols

1901-1910
A Masque of Days (1901 Cassell) - Walter Crane
Tales from Shakespeare (1901 Raphael Tuck) - 2 vols. Harold Copping
The King and Queen of Hearts (1902 Methuen) facsimile of 1st ed
Stories for Children (1902 Dent) - Charles Robinson & W Green
The Works (1903 Dent) - 12 vols
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (1903 Sign of the Vine Press, Concord) - Will Bradley
Essays of Elia (1904 Dent) - 2 vols. Charles Brock
Tales from Shakespeare (1905 Jack) - Norman M Price
The Works .. (1905 Methuen) - edited by E V Lucas
Tales from Shakespeare (1907 Bell) - Byam Shaw
Tales from Shakespeare (1909 Dent) - Arthur Rackham + 750 signed & numbered
Signed Edition offered for £500 in 1991
Tales from Shakespeare (1909 Dent : Trade Edition) - with Mary Lamb
Mrs Leicester's School (c1910 Dent) - Winifred Green

1911 Onwards
Tales from Shakespeare (1918 Ward Lock) - A E Jackson
Tales from Shakespeare (1926 Dent) - Charles Folkard
A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret (1928 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
Miscellaneous Essays and Sketches (1929)
Dream Children & The Child Angel (1929 Dent) - R Waudby
Tales from Shakespeare (1929 Allen & Unwin)
Seven Letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Ryle. of the E India House 1828-1832 (1931 OUP)
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (1932 Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester)
- 950 signed by Wilfred Jones
The Letters .. plus those of his sister, Mary Lamb (1935 London) - 3 vols. Edited by E V Lucas
The Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb (1975-8 Cornell UP) - 3 vols. Edited by Edwin W Marrs Jnr

READING
Bryan Waller Procter : Charles Lamb (1866 Moxon)
(Ed) E V Lucas : Charles Lamb & the Lloyds - Comprising Newly Discovered Letters
(1899 Lippincott, Phila)
Bertram Dobell : Sidelights on Charles Lamb (1903 The Author, London)
E V Lucas : The Life of Charles Lamb (1905 Methuen) - 2 vols
J C Thomson : A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles & Mary Lamb (1908 Hull)
George Daniel : Recollections of Charles Lamb (1937 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 500
Katharine Anthony : The Lambs - A Study of Pre-Victorian England (1948 Hammond)
Reginald L Hine : Charles Lamb and His Hertfordshire (1949 Dent)
Sarah Burton : A Double Life - A Biography of Charles & Mary Lamb (2003 Penguin Viking £16.99)