PBA Galleries

6 vols. With copper-engraved head and tail pieces & title-page vignettes. (12mo) 6¾x4½, period calf, spines tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco labels.

Significant and somewhat famous collection of poems, largely anonymous and many apparently by Dodsley himself, who fancied himself a poet and playwright in addition to his more mundane occupations of bookseller and publisher. A mixture of several editions, but apparently as issued together. With the bookplates of the Countess of Tyrconnel.