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All the books in this series all have 16 pages within coloured card covers; they are a uniform size of approximately 5" by 3.5" (13 by 9.5 cm)
The series covers a wide range of poets with the Pocket Books, a collection of idiosyncratic and eccentric Pocket Dictionaries and the Pocket Illustrators include sets of fine wood engravings.
Pocket Dictionaries
Unique, humorous, stimulating and intriguing. A blend of hard fact and spurious findings create something ideal "for reading in cold bedrooms, and / or in the bath". As well as the dictionaries of English Cricketers and Kings, the collection includes:
Pocket Illustrators -
The more recent titles are produced in A6 size, & the others are approximately 5" by 3.5"
A small collection which includes some of the best wood engravers, from established craftsmen like Thomas Bewick to 20th century exponents.
THE POCKET BOOKS
The poems are a personal selection chosen by JLCarr; some authors, such as Bacon, Johnson and Wellington were selected for their reflections rather than for verse.
Nightingale, Ruskin & Sterne include an element of biography.
Bacon
Barnes
Blake
Burns
Carr
Carroll
Chaucer
Chesterton
Christmas Book
Clare
Cobbett
Crabbe
Donne
Dr. Johnson
Edward Thomas
Gray
Hardy
Herbert
Herrick
Keats
Laurence Sterne
Macaulay
Nightingale (Florence)
Owen/Brooke
Ruskin
Scott
Shakespeare
Sydney Smith
Tennyson
The Reciter
The Rossettis
Wellington
Wordsworth
Saša Marinkov
Gwen Raverat
English Queens Parsons
Devils (Bierce) Cricketers