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Including Edgar Allen Poe, a smart collection of fourteen volumes from the Chandos Classics series. Fourteen volumes. Chandos Classics series. This set contains: The Complete Poetical Works and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe Together with his Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories involving mystery and the macabre. Edited by John Henry Ingram, an English biographer and editor with a special interest in Edgar Allan Poe. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. from 1659 to 1669 with Memoir. Written by Samuel Pepys, an English diarist and naval administrator. Edited by Lord Braybrooke, a British peer, clergyman and academic. The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Revised with notes by Reverend George Fyler Townsend, a British editor and the translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. The Romance of London. Written by John Timbs, an English author and antiquary. The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S. from 1641 to 1705-6 with Memoir. Written by John Evelyn, an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, best remembered as a diarist. Edited by William Bray, an English antiquary. Bacon's Essays Including his Moral and Historical Works with Memoir, Notes and Glossary. Written by Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Written by Miguel De Servantes Saavedra, a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. Translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, a French-born English author, playwright, and translator. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. The Constitutional History of England From Edward I to Henry VII with The Constitution of England. Written by Hallam, an English fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the British Museum, and Jean-Louis de Lolme, a Genevan and British political theorist and writer on constitutional matters. The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Written by Rudolf Erich Raspe, a German librarian, writer, and scientist. Illustrated by George Cruikshank, a British caricaturist and book illustrator. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. Written by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Three of four volumes, lacking volume one. Written by Edward Gibbon, an English essayist, historian, and politician best known for this, his most important work. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm to Diary of John Evelyn. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor age toning to the endpapers with the odd ink inscription to the front endpaper. With light spotting to the first and last few pages of Don Quixote. Very Good.
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