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The works of the British poets : with lives of the authors

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh, William Brown (Printer), Samuel F. Bradford (Publisher), John Laval (Bookseller), Mitchell, Ames, and White (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1819
Published by Mitchell, Ames, and White, Philadelphia, 1819
Poetry
50 volumes : illustrations ; 15 cm
27401692
v. 1. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Selections from tragedies
v. 2. Spenser, E., Daniel, S., Drayton, M., Select poems
v. 4. Davies, Sir J., Donne, J., Hall, J., Select poems. Stirling, W.A., 1st earl. Select poems. Corbet, R., Select poems. Carew, T., Select poems
v. 6. Cowley, A., Select poems. Waller, E., Select poems. Denham, Sir J., Poetical works
v. 13. Parnell, T., Poetical works. Philips, J., Poetical works. Dorset, C.S., 6th earl, Select poems. Stepney, G., Select poems. Walsh, W., Select poems. Smith, E., Select poems. Duke, R., Select poems. King, W., Select poems. Halifax, C.M., earl of., Select poems. Sprat, T., bp., Select poems. Rowe, N., Select poems
v. 14. Addison, J., Poetical works. Garth, Sir S., Poetical works. Hughes, J., Select poems. Buckingham, J.S., 1st duke, Select poems. Congreve, W., Select poems. Fenton, E., Select poems. Pattison, W., Select poems
v. 15. Prior, M., Select poems. Blackmore, Sir R., Select poems
v. 17. Tickell, T., Poetical works. Lansdowne, G.G., baron, Select poems. Yalden, T., Select poems. Green, M., Poetical works. Hammond, J., Poetical works. Somerville, W., Select poems
v. 19. Savage, R., Poetical works. Dyer, J., Poetical works
v. 26. Young, E., Poetical works. Dodsley, R., Select poems. Mallet, D., Select poems. Ramsay, A., Select poems
v. 27. Churchill, C., Select poems. Falconer, W., Select poems. Grainger, J., Select poems. v.28. Akenside, M., Select poems. Cooper, J.G., Select poems. Thompson, W., Select poems
v.29. Gray, T., Select poems. Chatterton, T., Select poems. Harte, W., Select poems
v.30. Goldsmith, O., Select poems. Langhorne, J., Select poems. Smart, C., Select poems
v.31. Johnson, S., Select poems. Armstrong, J., Select poems. Shaw, C., Select poems. Lyttelton, G.L. 1st baron, Select poems. Boyse, S., Select poems
v.32. Beattie, J., Select poems. Scott, J., Select poems. Cunningham, J., Select poems. Jenyns, S., Select poems
v.33. Glover, R., Select poems. Smollett, T.G., Select poems
v.34. Mickle, W.J., Select poems. Warton, J., Select poems. Warton, T., Select poems
v.35. Jones, Sir W., Select poems. Blacklock, T., Select poems. Cotton, N., Select poems
v.37. Cowper, W., Select poems. Lloyd, R., Select poems. Fergusson, R., Select poems. Richardson, of Queen's college, Ode to a singing bird. Jago, R., Select poems. Whitehead, W., Select poems. Logan, J., Select poems. Nugent, R.C.N., earl, Select poems. Bishop, S., Select poems. Bampfylde, J.C., Select poems. Russell, T., Sonnets. Lovell, R., Sonnets. Lovibond, E., Select poems. Bruce, M., Select poems. Roberts, W.H. Select poems. Porteus, B. Death. Glynn, R., Day of judgment. [Anonymous], The old bachelor
v.39. Burns, R., The poetical works of. Macneill, H., Select poems
v.47. Camões, Luiz De, The Lusiad; or The Discovery of India...tr.by Wm. Julius Mickle
Added engraved title page in v. 1: First American edition of the British poets in fifty volumes; frontispieces in other vols
Vols. 1-17, 22, 24-25 edited by Sanford; vols. 18-21, 23, 26-50 edited by Robert Walsh, Jr
Imprint varies: vols. 1-25: as above; vols. 26-29, 32-35, 43-45, 47-50: Philadelphia, Samuel F. Bradford for John Laval