Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain, Carefully Selected From The Works of the Best Authors.  Printed for Sherwin  and Co., London, FINE LEATHER BINDINGS, THREE VOLUMES, VERY SCARCE, ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS, 1821.  1070 pages, 6 1/8 inches tall.   Fine nearly 200 year old set of numerous works by English poets up to time of publication. Goldsmith, Dryden, Milton, Wordsworth, Burns, Pope, Cowper, Smollett, Gray, Swift, Addison and many, many others are represented.  Marbled boards and end pages, gold gilt top page edges, original cloth place markers present, many fine wood engravings throughout.   Bindings are strong, flexible, all in all a very handsome set. 

                    

                                                               Very Good Plus+ condition for age with wear to edges, corners,

                                                       board surfaces, a bit to head/heel of spines, some foxing and

                                                                         fading, age browning to texts throughout