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John Milton | First Editions
1608 - 1674
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Paradise Lost.
London: Cassell and Co., 1894. [Epic poem]. Popular edition. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.lxviii, 388. Publisher's blue cloth, blocked in black, blue, and gilt to front board and spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 50 Doré plates, including frontispiece. Lacks flyleaf, minor offset to front pastedown, bookseller's stamp in... More
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The Poetical Works of John Milton [PARADISE LOST]. With Notes and a Life of the Author by John Mitford.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1852. BOSTON EDITION. Quarto, pp. cxxix; 371; 478; [6], advertisements. Two volumes bound in one. With a portait frontispsiece. In publisher's red cloth with decorative gilt titles as well as Milton's portrait and a muse playing lyre in gilt to spine; embossed boards. Text framed... More
The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. The Cambridge Edition.
Boston, MA, and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxxiv; 419; [3]. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in double column. Contemporary red half morocco over lighter red cloth boards, raised bands and gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Textblock slightly toned. Binding a little... More
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books.
London: Printed for J. and H. Richter, 1794. [Illustrated Literature] RICHTER-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.[4]; 252; pp.[2]; 253-493; [5]. With 12 etched plates including a frontispiece of the author, and 12 etched vignettes heading each book. With the second title page and the... More
A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton. Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; containing several Original Papers of his, never before published.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738. 2 volumes; Folio. Large paper with wide margins. Sumptuous contemporary gilt and blind tooled panelled calf boards, elaborately gilt and blank tooled spines with gilt titles; blind and gilt dentelles with grey end papers; all edges gilt. Expert repair to joints. Fine. Engraved frontispiece... More
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
London: John Baskerville, for J and R. Tonson, 1758. First Baskerville edition. 2 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Full red English calf with full gilt backs, twin labels, elaborate gilt border to sides, Dutch marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Contents clean, bindings nicely aged, spines a little chipped... More
The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors.
London: C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, J. and W.T. Clarke, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, Jeffery and Son, J. Richardson, Carpenter and Son, J. Mawman, Baldwin and Co., J. Booker, J. Bohn, J. Duncan, Black and Co., G.B. Whittaker, J. Bain, W. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Six volumes..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Pullman. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. Text printed in red and black. Reproduction plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. A fine copy in a fine, unfaded and unclipped dust-jacket. Signed by the author in blue ink to the... More
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