"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
London: John Sharpe, 1827. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SET, two volumes. Octavo (14 x 10cm), pp.8; PL unpaginated, pp.PR unpaginated; 64; 188. With numerous plates, including frontispieces, engraved by Charles Rolls to both volumes. Contemporary blue full morocco, boards gilt-ruled. Raised bands, tooling, and gilt-lettered labels to spine. Gilt dentelle to..... More
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiii [3] 554 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of John Milton and facsimile first edition title-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. [Literature] LIMITED EDITION in a fine bespoke binding. Quarto (26 x 16cm), two volumes, pp.359; 283. With fifty-three illustrations by William Blake reproduced in collotype. Letter press printing in the Italic type of Blado by Walter Lewis, printer of Cambridge University Press, on Van Gelder..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page. Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page. Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt..... More