A series of Proof Portraits and Emberlishments Executed by first rate Artists, to illustrate The Best English Novelists, Poets and Essayists

London: Got up under the direction of, and printed for, Charles Cooke, 1805. First edition. Illustrated . Printed by J. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London. 8vo. Bound in contemporary green straight grained morocco, a.e.g. Spine sunned, some foxing, else very handsome. First edition. Illustrated . Printed by J. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London. 8vo. A collection of engraved title pages and illustrations from Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select British Classics, Cooke's Pocket Edition of the Original and Complete Works of Select British Poets, Cooke's Pocket Editionof Sacred Classics, and Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels. We have (truncated) never seen it before. Original price 6 guineas, perhaps they didn't sell many. (Inventory #: 250134)