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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.

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by MILTON, John, 1608-1674 :

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London : Macmillan & Co., 1877. A standard edition of the poetry, printed on india paper and published in Macmillan's "Globe Edition" series. Bound in 1883 in a very handsome binding, with fore-edge painting, for the Cambridge scholar-bookseller Robert Bowes (1835-1919) as a gift for his wife Fanny Bowes (1831-1903) on her birthday in June of that year. Inscribed and initialled by Bowes with his wife's name and the date - with a further later inscription in a different hand commemorating her death in 1903. With Bowes' personal "Quod Vis Potes" bookplate bound in. Bowes was a nephew of the publisher Alexander Macmillan (1818-1896) and his partner in the Cambridge bookshop of "Macmillan & Bowes", while his wife Fanny Bowes was Macmillan's sister-in-law. Sold together with the companion edition of "Poetical Works of Walter Scott" (1878), bound to match and evidently part of the original gift. Two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (174 x 115mm). (xii),(626); (xliv),(560)pp. Bound in handsome full citron morocco, banded and extra gilt; all edges gilt; hand-painted endleaves in a design of tulips for Milton and thistles for Scott, the designs repeated in concealment beneath the gilt of the fore-edges and only revealed when the pages are fanned open; spines a little darkened and with some minor rubbing, but otherwise in very good order and an extremely rare example of a personalised binding of this type.
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