A superb pair of volumes, constituting the self-contained letters of Charles & Mary Lamb, issued as the 6th and 7th volumes of The Works, edited by E.V. Lucas. These volumes having been extra-illustrated and meticulously annotated by the Charles Lamb scholar Gertrude Alison Anderson, 1875-1924, who edited a volume of letters from Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb, published in 1925. Her signature can be found in the first volume, dated 1911. Where additional letters by Lamb have come to light, Anderson has copied them into the volumes in her neat precise hand, either, where space allows, directly on to the page, or on to interleaved blanks or tipped in leaves. There are more than 100 such additional letters, each appearing in the correct chronological sequence. She has also added numerous precise notes, predominately in green ink, in the margins and other blanks spaces, and made alterations and amendments where necessary. Corrections and additions have also been made to the contents pages and index leaves, and portraits and facsimile leaves have also been added.