Item #28672 The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. TheCambridge Edition of the Poets.(Edited by William Vaughn Moody). John MILTON.
The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. TheCambridge Edition of the Poets.(Edited by William Vaughn Moody).

The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. TheCambridge Edition of the Poets.(Edited by William Vaughn Moody).

Boston& New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1899. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.5cm,xxxiv,417p., frontis portrait with tissue guard, title-page vignette,appendices, in contemporary half dark green morocco, gilt decorated blindruled raised bands, gilt titles & gilt flora decorations in the panels,gilt ruled borders on marbled boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., finebinding, some slight edge wear, spine toned to light brown, very good tofine sound clean copy in attractive American "Macdonald - N.Y." signedbinding (Lt). ~ The text follows in general the edition of 1645 forthe poems of that edition, that of 1667 for "Paradise Lost" and that of1671 for "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes." The portrait ofMilton is after Virtue's engraving made in 1731. The title-page vignetterepresent's the poet's home in the village of Chalfont St. Giles. Abiography of Milton is included by the editor. A very attractive bookin fine bindings. Item #28672

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