The works of the British poets
Subtitle: with prefaces, biographical and critical
By: by Robert Anderson, M.D.
Contributors: Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830.
Publisher: Printed for J. & A. Arch and for Bell & Bradfute
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: English poetry; English poetry -- Translations from foreign literature
Other titles: Complete edition of the poets of Great Britain; British poets
Notes: Each volume with added engraved t.p.

The works of the individual poets, v. 1-11, each have special title page dated between 1792 and 1795, with imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by Mundell and Son.

Many incorrectly signed leaves and numerous errors in paging.

Printed in double columns.

Cf. Coffman A56-A58

Victoria University Library volume 12 lacks t.p.
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Chaucer, Surrey, Wyat, Sackville; value: v. 2. Spenser, Shakspeare, Davies, and Hall; value: v. 3. Drayton, Carew, and Suckling; value: v. 4. Donne, Daniel, Browne, Fletcher, P., Fletcher, G., Jonson, Drummond, Crashaw, and Davenant; value: v. 5. Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler, and Denham; value: v. 6. Dryden, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Stepney, Philips, J., Walsh, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, and Halifax; value: v. 7. Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Granville, and Yalden; value: v. 8. Pope, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Pattison, Hammond, Savage, Hill, Broome, Pitt, and Blair; value: v. 9. Swift, Thomson, Watts, Hamilton, Philips, A., West, G., Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Mallet, Akenside, and Harte; value: v. 10. Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong; value: v. 11. Wilkie, Dodsley, Smart, Langhorne, Bruce, Chatterton, Græme, Glover, Shaw, Lovibond, Penrose, Mickle, Jago, Scott, Johnson, Whitehead, W., Jenyns, Logan, Warton, Cotton, and Blacklock; value: v. 12. Pope's Iliad, Pope's Odyssey, West's Pindar, Dryden's Virgil, Dryden's Persius, Dryden's Juvenal, Pitt's Æneid, Rowe's Lucan, Homer's Hymn to Ceres translated from the Greek by Richard Hole, Six olympic odes of Pindar translated from the Greek, by Henry James Pye; value: v. 13. Cooke's Hesiod, Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Fawkes's Musæus, Apollonius Rhodius, Mr. C; value: -'s Coluthus Lycopolites, Creech's Lucretius, and Grainger's Tibullus.