Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 3,120
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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BELL'S BRITISH POETS BELL, JOHN, publisher. The Poets of Great Britain Complete, from Chaucer to Churchill. 38 (of 47) engraved portraits; 108 (of 109) engraved additional titles. 109 volumes. 18mo, contemporary tree calf, flat spines divided by false bands into 5 compartments with red morocco lettering pieces in 2 and gilt ornamental tooling in the rest, mostly negligible wear; contents generally clean, front free endpaper lacking in most volumes, early owner's ink notes on some front pastedowns. Edinburgh & London, 1777-88
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handsome set of the largest compilation of its kind published up to then.
Cowley. 4 vols. 1777-84 Spenser. 8 vols. 1778-87 Hughes. 2 vols. 1779 Donne. 3 vols. 1779 Granville. 1779 Garth. 1779 Fenton. 1779 Dyer. 1779 Sheffield. 1780 Somervile. 2 vols. 1780 Dillon. Lacks portrait. 1780 Savage. 2 vols. Lacks portrait. 1780 Mallet. Lacks portrait. 1780 Denham. 1780 Cunningham. 1781 Tickell. Lacks portrait. 1781 Akenside. 2 vols. 1781 Armstrong. 1781 Broome. 1781 Rowe. 1781 Philips, Ambrose. 1781 Lyttleton. 1781 Philips, John. 1781 West. Lacks portrait. 1781 Moore. Lacks portrait. 1781 King. 2 vols. 1781 Watts. 7 vols. 1782 Chaucer. 14 vols. 1782 Pitt. 1782 Churchill. 3 vols. 1783 Young. 4 vols. 1784 Butler. 3 vols. 1784 Gay. 3 vols. Second edition. 1784 Waller. 2 vols. Second edition. 1784 Prior. 3 vols. Second edition. 1784 Addison. Second edition. 1784 Shenstone. 2 vols. Second edition. 1784 Dryden. 3 vols. Second edition. 1784 Congreve. Second edition. 1784 Parnell. 2 vols. 1786 Swift. 4 vols., the first lacking engraved additional title. 1787 Thomson. 2 vols. Lacks portrait. 1787 Hammond. Lacks portrait 1787 Pomfret. Lacks portrait. 1787 Pope. 4 vols. 1787-88 Gray. 1788 Milton. 4 vols. 1788.