THE POETICAL WORKS OF MILTON, YOUNG, GRAY, BEATTIE, AND COLLINS. Complete in one volume.
Philadelphia, (PA): John Grigg, 1831. 8vo. (2), [John Milton:] xxxii, 170, [Dr. Edward Young:] viii, 208, [Thomas Gray:] x, 47, [James Beattie:] ix, 23, [William Collins:] iv, 19, (3, publisher’s ad) pp. [printed double-column]. Ownership signature of A. Cleveland Cox (1818-1896, second Episcopal Bishop of Western new York) at the head of the title page and an 1835 gift inscription to him, from his mother, on the front endpaper; the Milton section with marginal ink marking and occasional notes, presumably by Cox, himself a published poet and writer on theological issues. Contemporary black polished calf, boards framed with a single gilt rule, gilt title and ornaments on spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Item #66973
Price: $75.00