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APPLETON'S EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS.
PROSPECTUS
OF A
New and Splendid Library Edition
OF THE
POPULAR POETS AND POETRY OF BRITAIN
EDITED, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES,
BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN,
AUTHOR OF “GALLERY OF LITERARY PORTRAITS,” “BARDS OF THE BIBLE,” ETC.
In demy-octavo size, printed from a new pica type, on superfine paper, and neatly bound.
Price, only $1 a volume in cloth, or $2 50 in calf extra.
“Strangely enough, we have never had as yet any thing at all approaching a satisfactory
edition of the English poets. We have had Johnson's, and Bell's, and Cooke's,
and Sharpe's small sized editions—we have had the one hundred volume edition from
the Chiswick press—we have had the double-columned editions of Chalmers and Anderson—and
we have the, as yet, imperfect Aldine edition; but no series has hitherto
given evidence that a man of cultivated taste and research directed the whole.”
—Athen.
The splendid series of books now offered to the public at such an unusually low
rate of charge, will be got up with all the care and elegance which the present advanced
state of the publishing art can command.
The well-known literary character and ability of the editor is sufficient guaranty for
the accuracy and general elucidation of the text, while the paper, printing, and binding
of the volumes will be of the highest class, forming, in these respects, a striking contrast
to all existing cheap editions, in which so few efforts have been made to combine
superiority in production with low prices.
Under the impression that a chronological issue of the Poets would not be so acceptable
as one more diversified, it has been deemed advisable to intermix the earlier
and the later Poets. Care, however, will be taken that either the author or the volumes
are in themselves complete, as published; so that no purchaser discontinuing the series
at any time, will be possessed of imperfect books.
The absence in the book market of any handsome uniform series of the Popular British
Poets, at a moderate price, has induced the publishers to project the present edition,
under the impression that, produced in superior style, deserving a place on the shelves
of the best libraries, and offered at less than one half the usual selling price, it will meet
that amount of patronage which an enterprise, based on such liberal terms, requires.
The series will conclude with a few volumes of fugitive pieces, and a History of
British Poetry, in which selections will be given from the writings of those authors
whose works do not possess sufficient interest to warrant their publication as a whole.
It is believed that this will render the present edition of the British Poets the most
complete which has ever been issued, and secure for it extensive support. The series is
intended to include the following authors:—
ADDISON.
AKENSIDE.
ARMSTRONG.
BARBAULD.
BEATTIE.
BLAIR.
BLOOMFIELD.
BRUCE.
BURNS.
BUTLER.
BYRON.
CAMPBELL.
CAREW.
CHATTERTON.
CHAUCER.
CHURCHILL.
CLARE.
COLERIDGE.
COLLINS.
COWLEY.
COWPER.
CRABBE.
CRASHAW.
CUNNINGHAM.
DAVIES.
DENHAM.
DONNE.
DRAYTON.
DRUMMOND.
DRYDEN.
DUNBAR.
DYER.
FALCONER.
FERGUSSON.
FLETCHER, G.
GAY.
GIFFORD.
GLOVER.
GOLDSMITH.
GOWER.
GRAHAME.
GRAY.
GREEN.
HAMILTON, W.
HARRINGTON.
HERBERT.
HERRICK.
HOGG.
JAMES I.
JONES.
JOHNSON.
JONSON.
LEYDEN.
LLOYD.
LOGAN.
MACPHERSON.
MALLETT
MARVEL.
MILTON.
MOORE.
OPIE.
PARNELL.
PENROSE.
PERCY.
POPE.
PRIOR.
QUARLES.
RAMSAY.
ROGERS.
ROSCOMMON.
ROSS.
SACKVILLE.
SCOTT, J.
SCOTT, SIR W.
SHAKSPEARE.
SHELLEY.
SHENSTONE.
SMART.
SMOLLETT.
SOMERVILLE.
SPENSER.
SUCKLING.
SURREY.
SWIFT.
TANNAHILL.
THOMSON.
TICKELL.
VAUGHAN, H.
WALLER.
WARTON, J.
WARTON, T.
WATTS.
WHITE, H. E.
WITHER.
WILKIE.
WOLCOTT.
WOLFE.
WYATT.
YOUNG.
The following Authors are now ready:
JOHN MILTON, 2 vols.; JAMES THOMSON, 1 vol.; GEORGE HERBERT, 1 vol.
JAMES YOUNG, 1 vol.
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