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Table of Contents:

• Paradise lost, a poem in twelve books / John Milton
• Paradise regained; and other poems / John Milton
• Poetical works / Mark Akenside
• Poetical works / Robert Burns (2 v.)
• Poems / William Cowper (2 v.)
• The Seasons / James Thomson
• The Farmer's boy / Robert Bloomfield (bound in v. with Thomson)
• Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind / Isaac Watts
• Poems / Lord Byron
• Poetical works / Lord Lyttleton
• Poetical works / James Hammond (bound in v. with Lyttleton)
• The vicar of Wakefield / Oliver Goldsmith
• Poetical works / Thomas Gray
• Poetical works / William Collins (bound in v. with Gray)
• Beauties of Shakespeare / W. Dodd (2 v.)
• Poetical works / John Dryden (2 v.)
• Works / Virgil tr. by Dryden (2 v.)
• Fables, and other poems / John Gay
• Baviad and Maeviad / Gifford
• Poetical works / George Canning (bound in v. with Gifford)

• The Sabbath, and other poems / James Grahame
• Poems and Runnamede, a tragedy / John Logan (bound in v. with Grahame)
• Sacred dramas; the search after happiness, and other poems / Hannah More
• Poetical works / William Shenstone
• Poetical works / Oliver Goldsmith
• The minstrel; and other poems / James Beattie (bound in v. with Goldsmith)
• Theodosius and Constantia / John Langhorne
• The chase, and other poems / William Somervile
• The English garden, a poem / William Mason (bound in v. with Somervile)
• Sentimental journey through France and Italy / Laurence Sterne
• Poetical works / Matthew Prior (2 v.)
• Orations / Demosthenes (2 v.)
• The village, and other poems / George Crabbe
• Sonnets and other poems / David Lester Richardson (bound in v. with Crabbe)
• Rasselas: a tale / Samuel Johnson
• The castle of Otranto / Horace Walpole
• Elizabeth; or, the exiles of Siberia / Madame Cottin
• Poetical Works / Alexander Pope (2 v.)
• Paul and Virginia: and the indian cottage / Saint-Pierre
• The complain; or, night thoughts / Edward Young
• The prose remains / Henry Kirke White
• Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift (2 v.)
• Essays, moral, economical, and political / Francis Bacon
• The sorrows of Werter, a German story.

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Contributors:

Harrild, Thomas , printer

Orr & Compy , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Jones and Co. (London, England) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr

Rare Book Room Donation

Miniature Book Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Miniature Book Collection

Subjects:

1800-1899

Miniature books

England

Genres:

Miniature books (Printing) — England — 19th century

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) — 1854 — England

Embossed cloth bindings (Binding) — 1854 — England

Printed books — England — London — 19th century

Specimens

General Notes:

Collection of miniature volumes of poetry, essays, novels, stories, etc., all but 4 volumes housed in original oak case with sliding glass door.
Jones published a Diamond Poets series and a Diamond Classics series. This and most known sets combine the two series and are commonly called "Jones Diamond Classics"
Some volumes with note: "Thomas Harrild, Printer, Silver Street, Falcon Square."
Libraries' set of 44 volumes in case contains duplicate volumes of: Gray and Collins, Grahame and Logan, and Lyttleton and Hammond.
Three titles (Gulliver's Travels (2v.), Bacon's Essays, and Sorrows of Werther) acquired separately from main set.
Bondy, Louis W. Miniature books, p. 84-86.
Weber, Msgr. F. J. "Cornerstone put in place", Miniature Book Society Newsletter, October 1992, p. 8.
Volumes bound in publisher's embossed and textured blue cloth with blind-stamped rules and gilt urn device on front covers, same design on back covers without gilt, and ornately gilt spines with foliate forms and titles. The main set of 44 volumes is housed in period (publisher's?) wooden bookshelf having 2 shelves and sliding wood-framed glass panel.
Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries, December 2010.

Physical Description:

55 volumes in 48 ; 95 mm. 44 v. housed in case 26 x 39 x 8 cm

Call Numbers:

Z232.J5887 D53 1836

OCLC Numbers:

1053087157
695085988 [Invalid]