The ''Aldine Edition of the British Poets'' was a series of reprints of classic works of literature, first begun in 1830 by English bookseller and publisher
William Pickering and printer
Charles Whittingham
Charles Whittingham (16 June 1767 – 5 January 1840) was an English printer.
Biography
He was born at Caludon or Calledon, Warwickshire, the son of a farmer, and was apprenticed to a Coventry printer and bookseller. In 1789 he set up a small ...
. The books were relatively cheap, and the Aldine series was one of the first and, according to ..., "the most memorable classic-reprint series of the period".
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Literature of England