dryden john bell robert edited (1 risultati)

THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Vol. I, 299 pp.; Vol. II, 296 pp.; Vol. III, 307 pp. Bound in original half green morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised band, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon and brown title labels, gilt. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Slight wear to extremities and a little foxing, largely confined to preliminaries; otherwise a very good clean copy. An Edition of Dryden's poems with a long introductory memoir and careful annotations by Robert Bell (1800-67). Bell moved from Ireland to London in 1828 and made his reputation as a journalist and literary editor. His English poets series in the same format as the Dryden, was issued in twenty four volumes, 1854-57, and expanded to twenty nine volumes in 1866. A relatively scarce title, handsomely bound. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 17TH CENTURY FINE BINDING ART / LITERATURE.