Grey cloth binding (faded from blue) with gilt title on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.

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A lovely set of James Montgomery’s poetry, collected by himself, complete in four volumes with illustrations. Four volumes of The Poetical Works of James Montgomery collected by himself in the original publisher’s cloth bindings.A lovely set of works. Volume I includes Wanderer of Switzerland, The West Indies, Miscellaneous Poems, Prison Amusements. Volume II includes The World Before the Flood, Miscellaneous Poems, Thoughts on Wheels, The Climbing Bou”s Soliloquies, Songs of Zion. Volume III includes Greenland, Miscellaneous Poems, Narratives, Translations from Dante. Volume IV includes The Pelican Island, Miscellanies, Sacred and Scriptural Subjects. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good.

James Montgomery (4 November 1771 – 30 April 1854) was a Scottish-born hymn writer, poet and editor, who eventually settled in Sheffield. He was raised in the Moravian Church and theologically trained there, so that his writings often reflect concern for humanitarian causes, such as the abolition of slavery and the exploitation of child chimney sweeps.