Author: DRYDEN, JOHN
Title: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volumes I to V (the British Poets Series)
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854. Hardcover. A complete, five-volume anthology of the poetry of England's John Dryden (1631-1700). Vol. I includes tissue-guarded portrait of the poet and a 146-page life of Dryden by Rev. John Mitford. Mr. Dryden was named England's first poet laureate in 1668. An entry in publisher's "The British Poets" series. --- In publisher's red cloth with decorations and titling in gilt and in blind to covers and spine; yellow endpapers and AEG (all edges gilt). Volumes lack dust jackets. --- A Fair-only set, with parts of backstrips missing or torn (volume I has lost about half of its backstrip). Also with missing front free endpapers to vol's. I, II & V and some pencilings & soiling to various endpapers. Interiors of books generally intact and unmarked.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; cli, 172, 328, 334, 316, 324 pages. Fair with no dust jacket .

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