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[BELL'S POETS.] Bell's Edition.

The Poets of Great Britain. Complete from Chaucer to Churchill.

BELL'S POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Edinburgh: at the Apollo Press, 1782.
106 vols., 12mo (5.25 x 3.25 inches). Full tree calf with triple olive and dark blue labels. Lavish Greek urns to panels. Gilt roll framing boards. Dentelles and marbled boards. Engraved frontispieces and title pages. An occasional chipped head cap, but otherwise in superb condition. A exceptionally long run, but sadly lacking three volumes, Milton (vols. 28 and 29), and Watts (vol. 65). Volume 91, Thomson has come from another set in a remarkably similar binding.
A lovely eighteenth century collection in full tree calf. Authors including Chaucer, Donne, Dryden, Swift, Congreve, Pope, et al.
£4500.00

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