8vo. Two volumes bound as one. vii, [5], 164; [6], 143pp, [3]. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, small worm-tracks to lower joint. Recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, internally clean and crisp.

An anthology of poetry originally published in journalist and playwright Edward Topham's (1751-1820) daily newspaper the World and Fashionable Advertiser, the first volume of which is dominated by the early sentimental verse of the primarily Florentine-based band of English poets, known as the Della Cruscans. The book was reprinted as The British album in 1790.