Lot 64
  • 64

The Aldine edition of the British poets.

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Description

  • London: Bell and Daldy, 1866-1892
57 volumes, 8vo, tall copy, engraved author portraits in some volumes, half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, spine gilt in compartments, some bindings slightly stained or scuffed

Provenance

James Arthur, bookplate in each volume

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The contents of this handsome edition are as follows: volumes 1-6 Geoffrey Chaucer; 7 Earl of Surrey; 8 Thomas Wyatt; 9-13 Edmund Spencer; 14 William Shakespeare; 15-17 John Milton; 18-22 John Dryden; 23-24 Matthew Prior; 25-27 Jonathan Swift; 28 Thomas Parnell; 29-31 Alexander Pope; 32-33 Edward Young; 34-35 Samuel Butler; 36-37 James Thomson; 38 Mark Akenside; 39-40 Charles Churchill; 41 William Collins; 42 Thomas Gray; 43 William Falconer; 44 James Beattie; 45 Oliver Goldsmith; 46-48 William Cowper; 49-51 Robert Burns; 52 Henry Kirke White; 53-57 Walter Scott