Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Vol. I. with preliminary steel-engraved portrait plate of Edward Young with imprints: "L.P. Boitard del.", "H. Robinson sc." and "London, William Pickering, 1834.". Plate is also with facsimile signature: "E Young".

Includes "The life of Edward Young, by the Rev. J. Mitford": v. 1, p. [ix]-lvii.

Charles Whittingham printed at the "Chiswick Press". Cf. Ing, Janet Thompson. Charles Whittingham the Younger and the Chiswick Press, 1985.

Part of the "Aldine edition of the British poets" series published by William Pickering between 1830 and 1845. Cf. McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972 and Kelly, Jerry. A checklist of books published by William Pickering, 2004.

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Victoria University Library copy: Inscriptions on fly leaf, v. 1: "From the Editor" and "S.T. Coleridge".

Victoria University Library copy has marginalia of Derwent Coleridge (?) or E.H. Coleridge (?)

MASS copy: Bound in tan calf tooled in gold; a.e. marbled. Spine with maroon leather title label tooled in gold. Spine tooled in gold with date: "1834". Board edges tooled in gold and turn-ins tooled in blind. With marbled endpapers. Vol. I with ownership inscription dated 1856: "Victor Alexander Williamson, Westminster". Lacking half-title in both volumes.