Poetry, drama and literature

collected editions of Lord Byron (1832-1833, 17 vol.; and others), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1889-1890, limited to 250 copies, 6 vol.), Robert Browning (1888-1894, limited to 250 copies, 17 vol.), John Dryden (1808, 18 vol.), Henry Fielding (1806, 10 vol.), John Ford (1827, 2 vol.; 1869, 3 vol.), Ben Jonson (1756, 7 vol.), Christopher Marlowe (1826, 2 vol.), Alexander Pope (1770, 6 vol.; 1821, 2 vol.), Edmund Spenser (1805, 8 vol.), and others; works by Irving, Rogers, Scott, Wordsworth, and others, including several first editions; first editions of Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (1821) in original boards, and a spurious first edition of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (c.1809); a set of Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages published by the Percy Society (1840-1852, 30 vol.); Repton's Odd Whims and Miscellanies (1804, 2 vol.); together with numerous others, mostly 8vo, some wear to bindings, boards detached on a few volumes, rubbing to boards and spines, some soiling, spotting and browning; sold as a collection not subject to return

most with William O'Brien, bequest booklabel dated 1899; library stamps

A full list is available on request.