John Dryden. THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ; CONTAINING ALL HIS ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS. 4vols. (complete). London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Hardcover. Speckled calf with gilt stamped monogram, labels and gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. 8vo; xxxiv, [10], 387, [1], lxxxviii; [8], 480, lii; [4], 494; [4], 456. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece, occasional engraved ornament or illustration. ESTC T145665.

Each 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

John Dryden (England, 1631-1700) is one of the most famous and celebrated poets and playwrights of the 17th century. He also worked as a literary critic, and he is well-known as a translator of Ovid, Homer, Virgil, and others.

Expected edgwear, scuffs, dry cracking, and discoloration to boards, spines with significant wear including losses to leather and cracking and rubbing at joints, vol. 1 with loose front board otherwise volumes still sturdy overall; bookplate of English solicitor George Bover on paste-down; cracking at hinges, scuffs and fading to marbled endpapers, pages lightly toned, minimal foxing, occasional small edge loss not impacting text; overall pages crisp and unmarked. A good and complete set of the work of this important writer.