1828-1851 Diamond Classics

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

A collection of four volumes from the Diamond Classics series, also known as Orr & Co's cabinet edition series.

Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth.

The Diamond Classics Series was a collection of miniature volumes of poetry, stories, novels and essays, uniformly bound in blue cloth. There were originally forty-six volumes in the series, published between 1828 and 1851. Dates and information acquired using Jisc, from a full set of the series held at the University of Oxford Libraries.

This set is comprised of the following:

'The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside'.

'The Seasons' by James Thomson and 'The Farmer's Boy' by Robert Bloomfield, bound together with two separate paginations.

'Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad: Pasquin v. Faulder: Epistle to Peter Pindar' and 'The Poetical Works of the Right Honorable George Canning', bound together with two separate paginations.

'Paradise Regained; and Other Poems' by John Milton.