Accession number
PML 130394
Creator
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Davison ... for Thomas Tegg ... R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow, also R. Milliken, Dublin, and M. Baudry, Paris, 1825.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
2nd. ed., with running title Select British poets taken from title of 1st ed., 1824.
"The ... ambition of the present compiler has been to offer to the public a body of English poetry ... such as might at once satisfy individual curiosity and justify our national pride"--P. [v].
Frontispiece engraved by J. Shury contains portrait miniatures of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Cowper, and Young.
"The ... ambition of the present compiler has been to offer to the public a body of English poetry ... such as might at once satisfy individual curiosity and justify our national pride"--P. [v].
Frontispiece engraved by J. Shury contains portrait miniatures of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Cowper, and Young.
Description
xx, 562 p., [1] leaf of plates : group port. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Calf, gold-tooled spine.
Classification
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