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Published by William Pickering, London
Seller: Roadrunner Books, Otsego, MI, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Grey blue cloth with paper labels. Small books. Wear and soiling to boards. All books match. Books dated between 1830 and 1853. Set published in uniform format but different years. Complete set is 53 volumes. This is 23 of those volumes. Single volumes by Falconer, Parnell, Gray, Goldsmith, Akenside, and Collins. 2 volume sets by Prior, Thomson, and Butler. 3 Vol. Sets by Pope, Burns and Churchill. 2 vols of 2 volume set by Cowper. Nice collection of British poets.
Published by London: William Pickering 1835-53, 1835
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Fifty-three volumes, 8vo, Chaucer in six volumes, Dryden and Spenser in five, Burns, Churchill, Cowper, Milton, Pope and Swift in three and Butler, Prior, Thomson and Young in two. Portrait frontispieces of all the poets except Falconer, as published, some light foxing, armorial bookplates of Philip Stapleton Humberston in all but the Spenser volumes, Pickering's small bookseller's label to the paste downs of 22 volumes. Original full morocco in various colours, a.e.g., the Spenser volumes with some wear to the joints and spine ends, otherwise a very good set.