Library Edition of the British Poets 40 vols

by George Gilfillan

$750 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1853-60. First or early printings of the Gilfillan-edited editions. Forty octavo volumes of forty-eight issued . Publisher's embossed olive-green or deep green cloth, titled in gilt on spines. A uniformly Very Good collection; a few of the bindings are slightly spine-sunned, with contents generally clean most volumes with text unopened ; foxing, where present, is scattered and generally mild. One volume

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