Various — Elegant Extracts

London, John Sharpe, 1810. Leather. A lovely uniformly bound and complete set of 'Elegant Extracts', containing a wide variety of popular pieces of poetry, prose, and epistles from across British history. Complete as thirty-six volumes in eighteen, with two books to each volume.The complete 'Elegant Extracts', including the six volumes each of prose, poetry, and epistles. A wonderful set comprising of many extracts of various popular and influential pieces of poetry, prose, and epistles.Each volume is illustrated with two engraved title pages.Collated, complete.The prose volumes includes: religious, preceptive, classical, orations, harangues, parliamentary speeches, historical, characters, dialogues, narrative, humorous, and satirical.The poetry volumes includes: devotional, moral, didactic pieces, fables, pastoral, odes, elegies, monodies, epitaphs, dramatic, ballads, songs, satirical, humorous, and larger poems.The epistles volumes is organized by date, from ancient and classical to the Georgian era.Including the works of Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Milton, John Dryden, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Shakespeare, Richard Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne, Richard Steele, and more. In a full straight grain morocco binding. Externally, generally smart. Some rubbing to the boards and spines. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Spines are a little faded. Light marks to the boards. Loss to the head of the front board of Poetry Volume III, and to the boards of Prose Volume III. Two puncture marks to the rear board of Poetry Volume VI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned and clean with just the occasional scattered spot, mostly to the first or last few pages. Small repaired chip to the contents page of Poetry Volume I. Ink stain to the first few pages of Prose Volume VI. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .