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Edité par Thomas Wardle, 1838
Vendeur : THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, Etats-Unis
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First Edition. SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS, FROM FALCONER TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, Thomas Wardle, 1838, first edition, some light wear to the spine extremities and corner tips, thin 3 cm long strip missing from the lower section of the outer rear hinge, some off-setting to the end-papers & paste-downs, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original full leather deluxe binding with much gold-gilt decoration, raised spine and all edges gold-gilt as well. This poetry anthology has contributions by William Falconer, Anne Letitia Barbauld, Sir William Jones, George Crabbe, Thomas Chatterton, William Gifford, Robert Burns, Samuel Rogers, James Grahame, Joanna Baillie, Robert Bloomfied, William Wordsworth, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Montgomery & Sir Walter Scott. This work was executed to complete an earlier volume of Doctor Aikin's book of British Poets from Ben Jonson to Beattie and contains biographical sketches as well.