53 volumes, 8vo (160 x 98 mm). Engraved frontispieces. (Some light toning and spotting, a few short marginal tears, a few leaves detached). 19th-century tan polished calf, sides gilt-stamped with Aldine device, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, green morocco lettering-pieces gilt in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (a few hinges starting, slight wear to extremities, some soiling). Provenance: Ernest G. Mocatta (bookplates engraved by Charles William Sherborn); Paul Rodman Mabury (bookplates).

"Aldine edition" of the poetical works of 24 British authors, including William Beattie, Samuel Butler, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Churchill, John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, and Sir Thomas Wyatt.