The Cabinet of genius
Subtitle: containing frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems, &c., with the poems &c at large.
Contributors: Shelley, Samuel, ca. 1750-1808; Taylor, C. 1756-1823
Series: Blake -- no. 935
Publisher: Printed for C. Taylor ...
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Illustrations; English poetry
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: Title-pages are engraved.

The plates bear the dates 1786-90.

Published in parts.

With a list of contents to each volume, including references to two supplementary numbers.

These volumes are illustrated with ninety-five fine stipple-engraved plates executed by Charles Taylor and John Ogborne mostly after designs by Samuel Shelley and Robert Smirke.

ESTC, 90563

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library's copy consists of one volume of various numbers from volumes 1 and 2 and the supplementary numbers, miscellanies and landscapes with their corresponding plates.  The illustration for Pope's Daphne's tomb (No. XIII) is lacking.  The plate for Sterne's Maria (No. IV) is lacking, replaced by an original pencil drawing in an unknown hand. Lacks all preliminary paging and content notes.

Victoria University Library copy's contents: No. VI. The garland / [Matthew Prior] -- No. XI. Spring : a pastoral / by Mr. Pope -- No. X. Summer : a pastoral / by Mr. Pope -- No. XI. Autumn : a pastoral / by Mr. Pope -- No. XIII. Winter : a pastoral / by Mr. Pope -- No. VIII. Flavia, or, The soliloquy of a beauty in the country / [Robert Dodsley] -- No. XIV. Palemon and Lavinia from Thomson's Seasons -- No. XXIX. Verses on the recovery of the Lady Viscountess Tyrconnel / [Richard Savage] -- No. XXXVIII. Euphrosyne from Comus / [John Milton].  The spinning-wheel / [Charles Dibdin] -- Suppl. number [1]. L'Allegro / by John Milton -- Suppl. number [2]. The hermit / by Dr. Goldsmith -- No. VI. Sweet William's farewell to Black-Ey'd Susan / by Mr. Gay -- No. XXXV. The dove -- No. XXXV. The Persian, the sun, and the cloud : a fable / by Mr. Gay -- No. XII. The miser and Plutus : a fable / by Mr. Gay -- No. IV. Maria [from Sterne's Sentimental journey] -- No. III. The monk from Sterne's Sentimental journey -- No. X. The sacrifice to love -- No. III. The sleeping fair : a Spanish historiette / by a correspondent -- No. XIV. Love liberated [illustration only] -- No. XIII. Beware [illustration only] -- No. XIII. View of a waterfall on the River Eure in Yorkshire [illustration] -- No. XIV. View of a second waterfall on the River Eure in Yorkshire [illustration] -- No. VIII. Ruins, No. II. Bolton Castle, Yorkshire [illustration].  Ruins, Richmond Castle, Yorkshire [illustration] -- No. IV. The cottage field [illustration]