Paradise Lost a Poem in Twelve Books...Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711.Includes in Paradisum Amissam..Summi Poet Johannis Miltoni by Samuel Barrow
by John Milton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good to Very Good
- Seller
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West Jeddore, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
$175.00$87.50
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About This Item
London: Private Published for T.Longman,B.Law,J.Dodsley,J.Johnson,D.Dilly Et All., 1795. Full leather the binding should last another couple of hundred years or so.The hinges at both front and rear are cracking .Both are firmly attached if a tad loose.The boards were previously fine tooled leather ..All that remains of this is some gilding to the boards edges and a little on the spine.The leather has worn/chaffed from parts of the spine.Corners are bumped/rounded.The prologue by Elijah Fenton on the Life of John Milton is missing a few pages at the front and begins at ix...There after the twelve books are quite intact.Some foxing which does not interfere with the printed word. First Thus. Full Leather. Good to Very Good. Illus. by Frontis is from an Engraving from an Impression of a Seal of T.simon in the Possefsion of of the Late Mr.Yeo.. 3 1/2" By 5 5/8" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Mulberry Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 903037
- Title
- Paradise Lost a Poem in Twelve Books...Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711.Includes in Paradisum Amissam..Summi Poet Johannis Miltoni by Samuel Barrow
- Author
- John Milton
- Illustrator
- Frontis is from an Engraving from an Impression of a Seal of T.simon in the Possefsion of of the Late Mr.Yeo.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Private Published for T.Longman,B.Law,J.Dodsley,J.Johnson,D.Dilly Et All.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1795
- Keywords
- Antiquarian/Johannnis Miltoni
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
- Size
- 3 1/2" By 5 5/8" Tall
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About the Seller
Mulberry Books
Biblio member since 2005
West Jeddore, Nova Scotia
About Mulberry Books
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