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A complete edition of the poets of Great Britain ...

Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Poems.; Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849, annotator.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, annotator.; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, annotator.; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, annotator.; John and Arthur Arch, bookseller.; Bell & Bradfute, bookseller.; J. Mundell & Co. (Edinburgh, Scotland), bookseller.
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Title
A complete edition of the poets of Great Britain ...
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Marginalia and poems in Anderson's British poets, 1792-1795
Created/published
London : Printed for John & Arthur Arch, and for Bell & Bradfute, and I. Mundell & Co., in Edinburgh, [1792-1795]
Description
13 v. ; 25 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830.
Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849, annotator.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, annotator.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, annotator.
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, annotator.
John and Arthur Arch, bookseller.
Bell & Bradfute, bookseller.
J. Mundell & Co. (Edinburgh, Scotland), bookseller.
Note
Title from engraved titlepage. The works of the individual poets, vols.1-11, have their own titlepages dated from 1792 to 1795, with the imprint: Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, but pagination and signatures within each volume are continuous. Vol.11 has an additional letter press titlepage, dated 1794, to the volume: 'The works of the British poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Robert Anderson, M.D.' - An advertisement for this publication reads: "This day are published, by Mundell and Son, printers, .. " (1795).

Printed in two columns.
Cited/described in
Alston, III.45
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T2891
Includes
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Poems.
Poetical works of William Shakspeare.
Genre/form
Poetical miscellanies.
Poems.
Manuscripts (documents)
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

Call number
N.b.53-64
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: wanting v. 8. Includes annotations by Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, a number of which were included in Hartley Coleridge's Essays and marginalia, 1851, and in T.M. Raysor's Coleridge's miscellaneous criticism, 1936. Additional annotations by Robert Southey in v. 2 and v. 4. Manuscript marginalia includes several poems and a pencil sketch in v. 2. Bought from Maggs June 7, 1922.
Call number
PR2841 1793 copy 1 v.2 fragment Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: The poetical works of William Shakspeare only. Pagination: [3], 608-674 p. "Vol. II" in direction lines. "The Poems and Sonnets are printed from the 1780 Malone text. A life of Shakespeare is based largely on Malone's version of Rowe's Life, and the additions as printed in Malone's 1790 ed.; some details are added from other sources" (Folger card catalog). In plain paper wrapper with manuscript ink title and imprint mirroring title page.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present
Call number
PR2841 1793 copy 2 v.2 fragment Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: The poetical works of William Shakspeare, of Sir John Davies, and of Joseph Hall only. Pagination: [3], 608-762 p. "Vol. II" in direction lines. "The Poems and Sonnets are printed from the 1780 Malone text. A life of Shakespeare is based largely on Malone's version of Rowe's Life, and the additions as printed in Malone's 1790 ed.; some details are added from other sources" (Folger card catalog). Quarter cloth-covered spine bound in boards.
Folger accession
cs171

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