A superbly preserved assemblage of works from the "Canterbury Poets" series published by Walter Scott of London. Issued in a cloth edition for the trade, a small number of works from each book in the series were apparently retained by the publisher and transferred to the auspices of the fine bindery, John & Edward Bumpus of London. The works were there bound, each in a delicate Arts & Crafts design limited edition quarter vellum binding. Single examples from the limited editions are desirable and an assemblage like the present extremely scarce on the market.
Each of the present examples by descent from their original owner.
The volumes include:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Poems of R. W. Emerson with Prefatory Notice by Walter Lewin. London Walter Scott. Nd. c.1900. 270pp.
[With]
Wordsworth, William. Poems of William Wordsworth: Selected, with Prefatory Notice by Andrew James Symington. London. The Walter Scott Publishing Company. Nd. c.1900. 285pp.
[With]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With Prefatory Notice by Joseph Skipsey. London. Walter Scott. Nd. c.1900. 294pp.
[With]
Spenser, Edmund. The Poems of Edmund Spenser [Selected]. Edited, with an Essay, Biographical and Critical, and Glossary, by the Hon. Roden Noel. The Walter Scott Publishing Company. Nd. c.1900. 344pp.
[With]
Scott, Walter. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical. By William Sharp. Original Ballads. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Marmion. London. Walter Scott. Nd. c.1900. 340pp.
[With]
Scott, Walter. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical. By William Sharp. The Lady of the Lake. The Lord of the Isles. Miscellaneous Poems. London. Walter Scott. Nd. c.1900. 340pp.
[With]
Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton, with Biographical Notice by John Bradshaw. Paradise Lost. London. Walter Scott. Nd. c.1900. 360pp.
Very good in quarter vellum with morocco title and tailpieces, each with subtle floral gold tooling to spine. The boards all in harmonically multi-toned linen. Textually very good with only minor foxing. Some light rubbing and bumping, linen boards a bit handled. Two of the volumes with small black markings to the vellum spines as shown.
