The Poetical Works of the Rev. R. Montgomery, A.M., Oxon., Volumes I & II: Satan; Woman [Both Volumes with Fore Edge Paintings]

xi, 171; 208, [12] pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual, as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes, often quite a bit larger than these, and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said, these are ably done, so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur, and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set, and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry, while it sold well during his lifetime, is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's, and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review.