The Oxford History of English Literature. I. Middle English Literature 1100-1400; II. Chaucer and Fifteenth Century Verse and Prose; III. Malory and Fifteenth Century Drama, Lyrics, and Ballads; IV. Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century; V. English Drama 1485-1585; VII. The Early Seventeenth Century 1600-1660: Jonson, Donne, and Milton; VIII. Restoration Literature 1660-1700: Dryden, Bunyan, and Pepys; IX. The Early Eighteenth Century 1700-1740: Swift, Defoe, and Pope; X. The Age of Johnson 1740-1789; XI. The Rise of the Romantics 1789-1815: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Jane Austen; XII. English Literature 1815-1832: Scott, Byron, and Keats; XIII. The Victorian Novel; XIV. Victorian Poetry, Drama, and Miscellaneous Prose 1832-1890; XV. Writers of the Early Twentieth Century: Hardy to Lawrence.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1990. 8vo. 14 (of 15) volumes. Reprints. First published between 1945 and 1989. Original dark navy hardcovers, gilt. These are NOT print on demand issues. Contents clean. No ownership marks. Vol. XIII is a bit shaken. A couple of spine heads on the jackets are a little rumpled, otherwise fine in fine d/ws. Item #8760
The last volume (VI. English Drama 1586-1642: Shakespeare and his Age) was not published until 1997 and almost all copies seem to have gone to libraries and other institutions.
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