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Poetry: A collection of leather-bound books, 18th century and later, comprising 27 books in...

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Lot 330

Poetry: A collection of leather-bound books, 18th century and later, comprising 27 books in...

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Estimate: £300 - £400

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Lot 330

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Poetry: A collection of leather-bound books, 18th century and later, comprising 27 books in total, to include:

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Oeuvres de Moliere, Nouvelle Édition, 6 Vols., Amsterdam, 1772;

William Falconer, The Shipwreck, 9th Edition, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796;

John Milton, Comus: A Mask, to which are added, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, London: E. Harding and W. West, 1799; 

Mark Akenside M. D., The Pleasures of Imagination, to which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem by Mrs Barbauld, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806; 

The Poems of Ossian, translated by James Macpherson, 2 Vols., London: W. Suttaby and B. Crosby, 1807; 

William Cowper, Table Talk and other Poems, with illustrations by Richard Westall, London: John Sharpe, 1817; 

James Thomson, The Seasons, Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1820; 

Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary: with other poems, 2nd Edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1829, together with Records of Women, 4th Edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1834; 

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, London: Edward Moxon, 1853; 

The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Peter Cunningham, 4 Vols., London: John Murray, 1854; 

The Poetical Works of John Keats, with a memoir by Lord Houghton, London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1869; 

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave, London: Macmillan and Co. 1872; 

Poems of Wordsworth, ed. Matthew Arnold, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888; 

The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton, ed. Rev. H. C. Beeching, London: Henry Frowde, 1911

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