V. COLLECTED WORKS.
1818. The Works of Charles Lamb. In two volumes. London, C. & J. Oilier, 1818. 2 vols. 12mo.
The first collected edition.
1835. The Prose Works of Charles Lamb. London, Moxon, 1835. 3 vols. 12mo.
1836. Prose Works of Charles Lamb. London, Moxon. 1836. 3 vols. 8vo.
1838. The Prose Works of Charles Lamb. London, Moxon, 1838. 3 vols. 12mo.
—— The Same, 1839.
—— The Same. 4 vols. 1840.
—— Another edition, 1847.
1838. The Works of Charles Lamb, comprising his Letters, Poems, Essays of Elia, etc., etc., with Sketch of his Life, by T. N. Talfourd. New York, Harper & Bros., 1838. 2 vols. 12mo.
1840. The Works of Charles Lamb [edited by Talfourd, with Sketch of Life, portrait and engraved title]. London, Moxon, 1840. 8vo.
—— The Same. 1845. 8vo.
—— The Same. 1852. 8vo.
1850. The Prose and Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, with his Letters and Life, by T. N. Talfourd. London, Moxon, 1850. 4 vols. 12mo.
—— Another edition. London, 1852.
—— Another edition. London, 1855.
1855. Works, with a Sketch of his Life and Final Memorials, by Sir T. N. Talfourd. New York, Harper & Bros., 1855. 2 vols. 12mo.
1856.—— Another edition. Philadelphia, W. P. Hazard, 1856. 4 vols. 8vo.
1857. Works, with Life, by Sir T. N. Talfourd. New York, 1857. 2 vols. 12mo.
1859. The Works of Charles Lamb. A new edition. [Portrait by Wageman, engraved title of Christ’s Hospital.] London, Moxon & Co., 1859. 8vo.
1865. The Works of Charles Lamb. A new edition. In five volumes. [Portrait by Wageman.] Boston, William Veazie, 1865. 5 vols. 12mo.
A large paper edition of only 100 copies was issued at the same time.
1865. The Works of Charles Lamb, corrected and revised, with Portrait. New York, Widdleton, 1865. 5 vols. 12mo.
1867. The Works of Charles Lamb, including his most interesting Letters, collected and edited, with Memorials, by Sir T. N. Talfourd. A new edition. London, Bell & Daldy, 1867. 8vo.
1868. The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb, with an “Essay on the Genius of Charles Lamb,” by George Augustus Sala [edited by W. C. Hazlitt]. London, E. Moxon & Co., 1868. 4 vols. 12mo.
It is only justice to Mr. Hazlitt to say that this edition was issued without his name upon the title-page; he did not even see the proofs.
1870. The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb, with an Essay on his | Life and Genius, by Thomas Purnell, aided by the Recollections of the author’s adopted daughter [Mrs. Moxon]. [Portrait of Charles and Mary, the former seated.] London, Edward Moxon, 1870. 4 vols. 12mo.
This edition contains a new Preface by Thomas Purnell. It has the first volume withdrawn of the issue of 1868.
1870. Works and Letters, by Talfourd. London, Bell & Daldy, 1870. 8vo.
1874. The Complete Works, in Prose and Verse, of Charles Lamb, from the original editions, with the cancelled passages restored, and many pieces now first collected. Edited and prefaced by R. H. Shepherd. [Portrait.] London, Chatto & Windus, 1874. 8vo.
—— The Same, 1875.
—— The Same, 1878.
1875. The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, edited, with Notes and Illustration by Percy Fitzgerald. [Portrait by William Hazlitt.] London, Edward Moxon, 1875. 6 vols. 8vo.
In this edition the narrative portion of Talfourd’s two works has been retained, condensed into one continuous narrative, with additions both in text and notes, while the Letters are separated from Talfourd’s original matter and arranged in groups, forty new ones being added.
—— The Same, 1876.
—— The Same, 1882-4.
1876. Works. Edited by Charles Kent. [Routledge’s Standard Library.] London, 1876. Crown 8vo.
—— The Same. London, 1889.
1876. Works, Poetical and Dramatic, Tales, etc. Routledge, 1876. 8vo.
1879. The Complete Works: with a Sketch of his Life, by Sir T. N. Talfourd. Personal Reminiscences of Lamb, Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and J. Cottle, by an American Friend. [Enfield Edition.] Portrait and Engravings. Philadelphia, 1879, Amies Pub. Co. 8vo.
1880. Works, etc., new edition. [Standard.] New York, 1880. 3 vols. 12mo.
1884. Works, etc. New York, 1884. 5 vols. 12mo.
1886. The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb. Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by Percy Fitzgerald. London, John Slark, 1886. 6 vols. 12mo.
An exact reprint of the edition of 1875.
1883. [Collected edition. Edited, with Notes and Introductions, by Alfred Ainger.] Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, 1878.—The Essays of Elia, 1883.—Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays, 1884.—Mrs. Leicester’s School and other Writings in Prose and Verse, 1885.—The Letters of Charles Lamb, newly arranged, with additions. Portrait. 2 vols. 1888.—Charles Lamb, 1888.
This is by far the best edition of Lamb’s Works. Excepting the biography, the dates given are those of the first editions. The latter was published in the “English Men of Letters” Series, in 1878, but is slightly enlarged so as to be uniform.