8vo. [2], 150pp. With half-title and engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Contemporary blind-ruled burgundy morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Near-contemporary gift inscription to verso of FFEP. Lamp damp-staining to frontispiece.

The first Aldine edition of the complete works of pre-Romantic poet William Collins (1721-1759), whose eclogues and odes marked an important progression away from Augustan conventions in the mid-nineteenth century.