Edinburg[h]: At the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1777-87. In 109 volumes. 12mo. Edited by John Bell. Each volume illustrated with an engraved title-page; several volumes with engraved frontispiece portraits of their authors. Full and uniform polished tan calf, red and green morocco spine labels, decorated in gilt, scattered rubbing to boards; edges stained yellow; three volumes bound in differing, but sympathetic, contemporary calf (49, Prior; 52, Swift; 77, Pope). 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, original ad for this set, as well as one for Bell's British Theatre, mounted on lid of each case.

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.