BRITISH DRAMA.—The Ancient British Drama. London: printed for William Miller . . . by James Ballantyne and Co Edinburgh 1810. Royal 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf.
Sir Walter Scott is believed to have edited these volumes. The matter is chiefly taken from Dodsley's Old Plays.
BRITISH ESSAYISTS.—The British Essayists; with Prefaces, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers. [with a general Index] London: printed for Nichols and Son &c. 1817. 12mo, forty-five volumes, calf, gilt back and sides.
Portraits of Steele, Addison, Pope, Johnson, Swift, Horace Walpole, Joseph and Thomas Warton, Bonnell Thornton, Chesterfield, Mackenzie, Colman, Hawksworth, Edward Moore, Hughes, and Bishop Berkeley.
BRITISH ESSAYISTS.—The British Essayists: with prefaces, historical and biographical. By A. Chalmers, . . . Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1866. 12mo, thirty-eight volumes, half green morocco, uncut edges.
No. 52 of one hundred copies printed on large paper, with fourteen portraits on India paper.
The contents are as follows: Vols. I-IV, Tatler; V-XII, Spectator; XIII-XV, Guardian; XVI-XVIII, Rambler; XIX-XXI, Adventurer; XXII-XXIV, World; XXV-XXVI, Connoisseur; XXVII, Idler; XXVIII-XXIX, Mirror; XXX-XXXI, Lounger; XXXII-XXXIV, Observer; XXXV-XXXVII, Looker-on; XXXVIII, Index.
BRITISH POETS.—4to, red levant morocco, gilt back, side panel, gilt edges.
Twelve drawings by J. Thurston in India ink, sepia, and pencil, being portraits of John Gower, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson, Massinger, Shirley, John Fletcher, Milton, D'Urfey, Young, Gray, and George Colman.
BRITISH THEATRE.—[A Collection of one hundred and eighty Plays &c. from the series edited by Bell and Cawthorn, with the addition of six Dramas written by James Wild. London 1791-'2-'3-'4-'5-'6-'7 and 1804-'6. Crown 8vo, forty-one volumes, red morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges.