Selected Poems 5 Vol Set, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Wordsworth; VG+ HC w/slipcase

London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1960s. 

English, Very Good+, HC, 12mo, 7 1/4" x 4 5/8", 

Five-volume set in red leatherette limp binding with gilt lettering to spines, gilded top edges, and sewn-in brown ribbon bookmarks. Minor wear to tips and edges, stain to the fore-edge of the Shelley volume, small tears to the head and tail of the Byron and Shelley volumes, and an inscription in pen to the front endpaper in the Byron volume. Fair red slipcase with white pattern decoration, notable wear, spots of missing decorated paper, tape residue, 1 1/2" tear to bottom edge, and 1/2" to top edge, otherwise intact. 703 pp; 413 pp; 639 pp; 607 pp; 575 pp. Includes black ink portrait illustrations of each poet as frontispieces. Individual plastic dust jackets are present in varied conditions. Collection of selected poems and prose from English poets, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and William Wordsworth.