English Literature.-

A miscellaneous collection of 25 volumes, including:

Chaucer (Geoffrey) & Tyrwhitt (Thomas, ed.) The Canterbury Tales, 2 vols., second edition, engraved portrait, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, modern prize label to front pastedown, Oxford, 1798;

Scott (Walter) The Lady of the Lake. A Poem, sixth edition, signature of Charles Markham to title, rebacked, Edinburgh, 1810, with the fifth edition of Marmion;

Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books, fourteenth edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, some with repaired tears, inscription dated 1735 to front free endpaper and frontispiece, contemporary calf, loss and cracking to spine, Jacob Tonson, 1730;

[with] Carus (Titus Lucretius) De Rarum Natura, tear to engraved title, later quarter morocco, worn with some loss to spine, Amsterdam, 1620;

and others similar, mixed bindings and condition, v.s. [not subject to return] (25)