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RARE! Highly collectable second edition---this is NOT an ex-library set! Contemporary full calf, spine in compartments of raised bands, gilt edges. Robert Dodsley (1703 -1764), the distinguished poet and dramatist, originally published the work in three volumes in 1748 and extended it to six volumes in 1758. ''Having now by the advice and assistance of my friends, brought this Collection of Poems to a competent size, it has been thought proper that the farther progress of its growth should here be stopped. From the loose and fugitive pieces, some printed, others in manuscript, which for forty or fifty years past have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the most judicious opinions I could obtain in distinguishing their merits, endeavoured to select and preserve the best."(postscript of Vol. 6). The volumes include works by some of the greatest English authors in history such as Johnson, Warton, Pope, Fielding and most notably Thomas Gray. Hence, t he Collection set the canon for mid-eighteenth-century poetry, passing through several editions and supplements by other editors through the rest of the century. Size : 8vo, Title page with an oval vignette scene. Elaborate engraved head and tail pieces., Volume : Six volumes. Most listings are either later printings and/or selling for 2 to 3 times the price.
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