1776-7 BELL'S EDITION OF 'POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN’ 20V Milton Pope Dryden Butler

Description: 1776-7 BELL'S EDITION OF 'POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN’ 20V Milton Pope Dryden Butler TEN DOUBLE VOLUMES FROM THE ORIGINAL 1776-7 BELL'S EDITION OF 'THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPLETE FROM CHAUCER TO CHURCHILL' THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON FROM THE TEXT OF NEWTON IN FOUR VOLUMES VOLs. 1 & II BOUND TOGETHER (PARADISE LOST), VOLs. III & IV BOUND TOGETHER (PARADISE REGAINED, ETC.) THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. FROM THE TEXT OF WARBURTON IN FOUR VOLUMES VOLs. I & II BOUND TOGETHER, VOLs. III & IV BOUND TOGETHER THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. ESQ. IN THREE VOLUMES VOLs I, & II BOUND TOGETHER, VOL III BOUND WITH BUTLER VOL. I THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL BUTLER IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I BOUND WITH DRYDEN VOL III, VOLs. II & II BOUND TOGETHER THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I CONTAINING HIS SEASONS bound with VOL. II THE POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW PRIOR IN THREE VOLUMES VOLs. I & II BOUND TOGETHER, VOL. III BOUND WITH GAY VOL. I THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GAY IN THREE VOLUMES VOL I (only) BOUND WITH PRIOR VOL III John Bell at the Apollo Press, Edinburg, 1776 (Milton, Pope), 1777 (Dryden, Butler, Thomson, Prior, Gay). Original editions. Hardcovers. Leather spines and corners, paper covered boards, 5" by 3.5", separately paginated double volumes with engraved and letterpress title pages in each volume, The first 20 volumes published by John Bell in his great series The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill that eventually grew to 109 volumes. John Bell (1745–1831) was an English publisher. Originally a bookseller and printer, he also innovated in typography, commissioning an influential font that omitted the long s. He drew the reading public to better literature by ordering attractive art to accompany the printed work. Life From 1769, Bell owned a bookshop in the Strand, London, the "British Library". His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, much less than what was commonly charged. Bell's joint-stock organisation of his publishing company defied "the trade" — forty dominant publishing companies — to establish a monopoly on top publications. In addition to the extensive Poets of Great Britain, he published book sets on Shakespeare and The British Theatre. The drawings and illustrations in these works influenced later publishers. He also ran a circulating library. In 1788-1789, he operated a type foundry called the British Letter Foundry in collaboration with punchcutter Richard Austin. Revivals of these typefaces have been made under the name of Bell and Austin. Bell died in Fulham in 1831, summed up by publisher Charles Knight as a "mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers." He was the uncle of the engraver Edward Bell. CONDITION: Good Covers / Very Good+ or Near Fine Contents. (Covers are rubbed with bent corners and moderate wear at edges. Spine leather is rubbed and some volumes have light wear at the spine extremities; some of the spine labels are chipped and damaged. A few boards have cracks at the spine joints. The Contents are complete, clean and intact. Tight bindings.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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