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~Date range: 1875-1888. ~Poets included: Mark Akenside, James Beattie, Samuel Butler (2 vols), Robert Burns (3 vols), William Collins, Geoffrey Chaucer (6 vols), Charles Churchill (2 vols), John Dryden (5 vols), Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper (3 vols), William Falconer, John Milton (3 vols), Thomas Gray, Henry Kirke White, Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope (3 vols), William Shakespeare, Matthew Prior (2 vols), Edmund Spenser (5 vols), Jonathan Swift (3 vols), James Thomson (2 vols), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt, Edward Young (2 vols). Half dark brown leather, marbled paper to boards. Gilt lettering and ruling to spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Owner's bookplate to inside front boards; 1 volume also has bookplate to rear endboard. Front endpaper cracking over gutter to 5 vols (Chaucer vols. V/VI; Dryden vols 1/2 & III/IV; Spenser vol. V; Young). Dryden vol. I/II just beginning to crack at rear hinge. Front hinge of Dryden I/II also cracking exteriorly from base and very slightly slack; other cracked hinges scarcely slack. Leather a little edgeworn to some spine ends, occasional marking to spines. Occasional foxing. (Another Aldine Edition has 53 vols., Churchill's works being in 3 vols. But the title page for Churchill's works in this set mentions only 2 vols, so this seems a complete set of this edn.) ~Robust packaging. Size: Approx. 400-750pp. per vol. Seller Inventory # HH5781
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