[Rarebooks] FS: BRITISH POETS IN A FINE BINDING, 1850

[Bob Petrilla]

Aikin, Dr. John (1747-1822). SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS: with
Biographical and Critical Prefaces. London: Longman, Rees, 1850. Early
edition. pp: vii, 807. Bound in full green morocco, panelled spine with
elaborate gilt decorations, gilt frames with designs on both covers,
dentelles, all edges gilt. 9" x 5.75"  Very Good.
Samples the British poets from Ben Jonson to James Beattie.  A gift
inscription on the blank flyleaf, dated Xmas 1854, is from one friend to
another "on his leaving Eton."        $65.00

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