A rare and well-preserved 18th-century travelling library of English publisher John Bell's Poets of Great Britain. Complete in their two original travelling library cases resembling four folio volumes, and containing 109 volumes. Featuring authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gay, Swift, Addison, and more. Housed in two original brown calf travelling library cases resembling stacked folio books, red morocco spine labels, decorated in gilt, each with hidden key lock compartment on spine (keys not present), rubbed and scratched, small loss in upper corner of second case; each lined in matching marbled paper and green felt. From the collection of Justin G. Schiller.
