APPIEXON’S EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS. 
PROSPECTUS 
OF A 
New and Splendid Library Edition 
OF THE 
POPULAR POETS AND POETRY OE BRITAIN 
EDITED, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES, 
BY THE BEY, GEORGE GILEILLAN, 
AUTHOR OP “GALLERY OP LITERARY PORTRAITS,” “BARDS OP THE BIBLE,” ETO. 
In demy-octavo size, printed from a new pica type, on superfine paper, and neatly bound. 
Price, only SI a volume in cloth, or $2 50 in calf extra. 
“ Strangely enough, we have never had as yet any thing at all approaching a satis- 
factory 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 An- 
derson— 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 ofl:’ered 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 eflbrts 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 ac- 
ceptable 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 Brit- 
ish 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 otfered 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 oi 
British Poetry, ia which selections will be given from the writings of those authors 
whose works do mot 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 ia 
intended to include the following authors : — 
ADDISON. 
COWPER. 
GRAHAME. 
OPIE. 
SPENSER. 
AKENSIDE. 
CRABBE. 
GRAY, 
PARNELL. 
SUCKLING. 
ARMSTROIvfG. 
CRASHAW. 
GREEN. 
PENROSE. 
SURREY, 
BARBAULD. 
CUNNINGHAM. 
HAMII.TON, W. 
PERCY. 
SWIFT. 
BEATTIE. 
DAVIES. 
HARRINGTON. 
POPE. 
TANNAHILL. 
BLAIR. 
DENHAM, 
HERBERT. 
PRIOR. 
THOMSON. 
BLOOMFIELD. 
DONNE. 
HERRICK. 
QUARLES. 
TICKELL. 
BRUCE. 
DRAYTON. 
HOGG. 
RAMSAY. 
VAUGHAN, H. 
BURNS. 
DRUMMOND. 
JAMES 1. 
ROGERS. 
WALLER. 
BUTLER. 
DRYDEN. 
JONES. 
ROSCOMMON. 
WARTON, J. 
BYRON. 
DUNBAR. 
JOHNSON. 
ROSS. 
WARTON, T, 
CAMPBELL. 
DYER. 
JONSON. 
SACKVILLE. 
WATTS. 
CAREW. 
FALCONER. 
LEYDEN. 
SCOTT, J. 
WHITE, H. K. 
CHATTERTON. 
FERGUSSON. 
LLOYD. 
SCOTT, SIR W. 
WITHER. 
CHAUCER. 
FLETCHER, G. 
LOGAN. 
SHAK8PBARE. 
WILKIE. 
CHURCHILL. 
GAY. 
MACPHERSON. 
SHELLEY. 
WOLCOTT. 
CLARE. 
GIFFORD. 
MALLETT. 
SHENSTONE. 
WOLFE. 
COLERIDGE. 
GLOVER. 
MARVEL. 
SMART. 
WYATT. 
COLLINS. 
GOLDSMITH. 
MILTON. 
SMOLLETT. 
YOUNG. 
COWLEY. 
GOWER. 
MOORE. 
SOMERVILLE. 
The folhwing Authors are now ready : 
JOHN MILTON, 2 vote. ; JAMES THOMSON, 1 vol. ; GEORGE HERBERT, 1 voi 
JAMES YOUNG, 1 vol. 
