The Works of The British Poets, Collated with the Best Editions

A near-complete set of The British Poets, spanning forty-one main volumes and five supplements, featuring Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, and many lesser-known poets, smartly bound in half calf. Bound in a half leather binding with green cloth boards.A near complete set. This set is sadly missing Volume XVII, which would be Pope, First and Second Volumes. This series, published between 1808 and 1809, brings together the major and minor British poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Spanning forty-one main volumes and a five supplementary volumes. This collection offers the works of Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Swift, but also many lesser-known poets, offering both the poetry itself and critical commentary. This set consists of:Volume I, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Milton (1808).Volume II, Containing the Third and Fourth Volumes of Milton (1808).Volume III, Containing Addison"s Critique, and Johnson"s Remarks on Milton; and the Poems of Sir John Denham (1808).Volume IV, Containing the Two Volumes of Waller (1808).Volume V, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Butler (1808).Volume VI, Containing the Third Volume of Butler, and the Poems of Philips (1808).Volume VII, Containing the Two Volumes of Dryden"s Fables (1808).Volume VIII, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Dryden (1808).Volume IX, Containing the Third Volume of Dryden, and the Poems of Garth (1808).Volume X, Containing the Poems of Addison and Tickell (1808).Volume XI, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Prior (1808).Volume XII, Containing the Third Volume of Prior, and the Poems of Parnell (1808).Volume XIII, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Gay (1808).Volume XIV, Containing the Third Volume of Gay, and the Poems of Savage (1808).Volume XV, Containing the Two Volumes of Somervile (1808).Volume XVI, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Swift (1808).Volume XIX, Containing the Third and Fourth Volumes of Pope (1808).Volume XX, Containing Two Volumes of Thomson (1808).Volume XXI, Containing Two Volumes of Watts (1808).Volume XXII, Containing the Two Volumes of Shenstone (1808).Volume XXIII, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Young (1808).Volume XXIV, Containing the Third and Fourth Volumes of Young (1808).Volume XXV, Containing the Two Volumes of Akenside (1808).Volume XXVI, Containing the Poems of Dyer and William Thompson (1808).Volume XXVII, Containing the Poems of Green and Jago, and Hammond and Lord Lyttelton (1808).Volume XXVIII, Containing the Two Volumes of Hamilton (1808).Volume XXIX, Containing the Poems of Edward Moore and Mallet (1808).Volume XXX, Containing the Poems of Collins and Gray and Falconer and Day (1808).Volume XXXI, Containing the First and Second Volumes of Churchill (1808).Volume XXXII, Containing the Third Volume of Churchill, and the Poems of Jenyns (1808).Volume XXXIII, Containing the Poems of Blair, Glynn, and Boyce, and Shaw, Lovibond, and Penrose (1808).Volume XXXIV, Containing the Poems of Armstrong and Mickle (1808).Volume XXXV, Containing the Poems of Cunningham and Cotton (1808).Volume XXXVI, Containing the Two Volumes of Langhorne (1808).Volume XXXVII, Containing the Poems of Goldsmith and Beattie, and Johnson and Joseph Warton (1808).Volume XXXVIII, Containing the Two Volumes of Glover (1808).Volume XXXIX, Containing the Poems of Scott and Thomas Warton (1808).Volume XL, Containing the Two Volumes of Burns (1808).Volume XLI, Containing the Poems of Smollet, Bruce, and Logan; Hoyland, J. H. Moore, Headley, and Russell; and Oram, Bampfylde, and Lovell (1808).Volume XLII, Containing the Two Volumes of Sir William Jones (1808).Supplement to the British Poets Volume I, Containing Select Poems from the Works of The Earl of Rochester, Earl of Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Earl of Dorset, Stepney, Walsh, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Earl of Halifax, and Rowe (1809).Supplement to the British Poets Volume II, Containing Select Poems from the Works of Hughes, Duke of Buckingham, Congreve.…