The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes.

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes. c1850. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 12mo.(4" x 6.5") 10 volumes complete. Half black pebbled leather with corners, double gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to second and third compartments, fancy gilt frames and centered gilt devices to all other compartments. Gilt "London" to foot of spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, The head of the spine for Vol. VIII chipping with tiny loss. Every volume with half-title, engraved frontispiece, and engraved half-title page. A very attractive set of books that would add style to any set of shelves.

A complete ten-volume collected edition of the poetry of Robert Southey, one of the major English Romantic poets and longtime Poet Laureate. The set gathers his ambitious epics, narrative poems, ballads, juvenile verse, and later poetry, including works drawing on medieval history, mythology, travel, religion, and national legend.

The set comprises: Joan of Arc; The Vision of the Maid of Orleans, Juvenile and Minor Poems, Vol. I, Juvenile and Minor Poems, Vol. II, Thalaba the Destroyer, Madoc, Ballads and Metrical Tales, Vol. I, Ballads and Metrical Tales, Vol. II, The Curse of Kehama, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, and The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo and Other Poems.