Robert Dodsley, ed: A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands

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Robert Dodsley, ed : A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands

R. & J. Dodsley, London, c. 1763

Contemporary full speckled calf, spine in 6 compartments of raised bands, edges speckled red. , Joints are slightly tender, otherwise a very good and attractive set uniformly bound in speckled full calf., 8vo, P. Volume 1. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-335; Volume 2. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-336; Volume 3. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-351; Volume 4. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-360, (1); Volume 5. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-336; Volume 6. half-title, blank, title, blank, (2), 3-336., Title page with an oval vignette scene. Elaborate engraved head and tail pieces., Volume : Six volumes.

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 prominent authors such as Johnson, Warton, Pope, Gray and Fielding., Bateson II:437.

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