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First collected Ainger edition, one of 675 sets, this very ornately bound in the so-called "Kelliegram" style. The front board of all 12 volumes is features a scene from Lamb's work executed with multicolour leather onlays heightened with paintwork detail. The much-imitated "Kelliegram" binding style was one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family's bindery was an established part of the London trade. It was founded in 1770 by John Kellie (as the name was then spelled) and carried on by successive family members into the 1930s. The leading binderies of the early 20th centuries, of which Birdsall was one of the largest provincial ones, adopted this style. Alfred Ainger (1837-1904) was a foremost authority on Lamb. Livingston notes that this edition saw "further considerable additions" to the letters (p. 278). Luther S. Livingston, A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1903. 12 vols, octavo (225 x 150 mm). Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard to the Life. Finely bound in near-contemporary red crushed morocco by Birdsall, spines with two raised bands, lettered and decorated with floral pattern in gilt, single gilt fillet to boards, each front board with a different onlaid rectangular panel illustrating a scene from Lamb's work, each executed in multicoloured morocco and onlays, some painted, gilt inner dentelles, red silk endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in custom red cloth slipcases. A fine set.…