HAZLITT, William. Select British Poets, or New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present Time, London: W. C. Hall, 1824, 8°, FIRST EDITION, printed in double column, engraved frontispiece after Thomas Stothard (offset onto title), later 19th-century black morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, g. e., armorial bookplate of the Davis family. [Keynes 77: "Lamb helped in the production of the book ... shortly after the book was published it was discovered that the copyright of the publishers of the Living Poets had been extensively infringed, and publication seems to have immediately ceased. Very few copies can have been put into circulation ... very uncommon at the present time."]