8vo. In three volumes. With engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. Rubbed, lightly marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Robertson Trowbridge to FEP, slight loss to lower corner of leaf a3 of Vol. III, scattered spotting.

The collected works of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-1759), Welsh diplomat and satirist. Included are a great deal of odes, often satirical in nature, and sometimes targeted at his political rival, the Earl of Bath. Accompanied by notes from Horace Walpole, who praised the 'biting satire' of the poet.