8vo. In two volumes. [2], lvi, [3], 298pp; vi, 393pp, [1]. With half-title to each volume. Contemporary blue calf, richly gilt-tooled, with contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, and scoring to boards. Internally clean and crisp.

The collected poetical works, finely bound, of the Rev. Edward Young (1638-1765), fellow of All Souls college, Oxford, and literary associate of Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Samuel Richardson, among others. The collection begins with The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742-6), Young's internationally successful blank verse poem inspired by the death of his wife.