A handsome uniform edition in eight volumes of the Poetical Works of George Crabbe. Publishes by John Murray, London in a new edition of 1847. Bound in embossed brown boards with decorated gilt spines. Attractive lithographic illustrations to half title, recto and verso. Light tanning to some page margins but text otherwise, clean, clear and unmarked. Some slight shelf wear to top spines vols. 1, 2, 5. 6 but these volumes present well as a uniform shelf set. Vol. 1: Life of George Crabbe 334pp Vol. 2: 342pp The Library; The Village; The Newspaper; The Parish Register; The Birth of Flattery; Sir Eustace Grey; The Hall of Justice; Woman Vol. 3: 320pp The Borough Vol. 4: 324pp The Borough (cont.); Letters; Occasional Pieces; Tales Vol. 5: 304pp Tales (cont.) Vol. 6: 306pp Tales of the Hall Vol. 7: 306pp Tales of the Hall (cont.) Vol. 8: 326pp Posthumous Tales