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John Milton; illustrated by Arthur Rackhan. Comus. Doubleday, Page, NY ca. 1921, 1921.
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . Large 8vo, hardcover. No dj, green cloth. Vg condition. Board edges lightly faded, contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 76 pp. 22 tissue-guarded color Plates called for in the List of Illustrations, collated, all present. Illustrated, Literature, Poetry, Restoration,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Milton, John; Rackham, Arthur. Comus. William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page, 1921.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt (some darkening, wear and minor fraying to cloth; some browning to text). Notable for the state of the 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham (all present). Printed in Great Britain. xviii+76+[2] pages+plates. Bookplate of Norman Davis.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UNDATED. 4to: xviii, 76pp, plus 22 colour plates. Rubbed green cloth, gilt lettering and decor on spine and front cover. Gilt top edge. Some spotting throughout.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Arthur Rackham; John Milton. Comus. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.
Price: US$179.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original first American trade edition of the Arthur Rackham illustrated Comus. The book is undated but circa about 1921. It is beautifully illustrated by Rackham with 24 color plates and a few other black and white illustrations. The book is overall in good condition with some minor signs of wear and age. The covers have some mild wear with some fraying and wrinkling to the cloth near the top of the spine. The binding is good and sound. The interior is generally nice and clean with just the occasional light bit of foxing & grubbiness. One of the tipped in plates has a creased corner. There is a very small tear near the gutter of one of the table of contents pages. Along with that there may be the very occasional page with some kind of other minor imperfection such as a creased page corner, minor interior crack, other tiny chip or tear, etc. Generally though, it's a good copy. The book measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 1/2 inches and is 76 pages long.*********** This book will require additional shipping charges if being sent outside of the United States**********
Seller: Nevermore Bookstore, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Light rubging to board edges; small pencil inscription. Hinges uncracked and all illustrations and captioned tissue guards present. Binding is solid and straight . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information
Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.
John Milton. Comus by John Milton (Arthur Rackham Art). Doubleday Page, New York, 1921.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Comus by John Milton (Arthur Rackham Art) A square copy with front hinge starting, worn cloth edges with damp marks to upper portion of covers and scratches to back cover. Small bookplate to front endpaper. Rubbed closed tear to two leaves, text pages 31-34. Tanning to page edges. No date [1921] Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition. 24 tipped-in color plates w ith captioned tissue-guards, and numerous b/w drawings. Green cloth, pictorial gilt, pictorial endpapers. Printed in Great Britain. New York: Doubleday Page & London: William Heinemann
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Milton, John. Comus. Doubleday Page/William Heinemann, New York/London, 1921.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 76pgs.frontispiece.illustrated endpapers.22 tipped in color plates. previous owner signature on half title page.Green Cloth, gilt decorations, lettering on front panel. Closed tear on upper spine, nick ln the middle and fraying to the lower edge. corners rubbed.internally fine. Size: Quarto
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Milton, John, Rackham, Arthur. Comus. William Heinemann, 1921.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Comus by John Milton Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, William Heinemann, London, Doubleday Page & Co., New York, 1921, 76 pp, green decorative cloth, 10.25 x 8, 4to. In good condition. A stunning book in general! Light wear to extremities with minor crushing to tips and end bands. Minor rubbing to surface of cloth. Spine slightly faded with rubbed gilt work. Front cover depicting monsters wearing Elizabethan ruffs designed by Rackham. Pictorial end papers in light blue depicting silhouette nymphs being chased by sprites in the wood. Gift inscription dated Christmas, 1921 on rear fly leaf. Front gutter tender and nearly split. Light age-related toning throughout. Binding remains intact. All plates and tissue guards present. Free of known markings. Top edge gilt. Please see photos. A truly whimsical and delightful take on Miltons mythology Comus, 1634. Comus is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Arthur Rackham books are quite collectible and fetch high prices at auction, especially first editions in nice shape. Rackham is considered the leading illustrator of the Golden Age of British book illustration at the turn of the 20th century. Simply wonderful.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No date; circa 1921. Large 7 1/2" x 10" gift book design. Dk. green full-cloth boards, gilt embossed cover and spine design, titles, moderate shelf wear, some spine rub. Front board features stylized cover titles and several ogre-like creatures including donkey, goat, wolf and owl. Colour frontispiece plate w/caption: "All amidst the Gardens fair, Of Hesperus, and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Fine tissue guard w/printed caption. Thick, deckled pages very good, clean. Green pictorial endpapers with white silhouettes of four maidens bounding past tree and small satyr-like beings in chase. Bind good; hinges intact. Features twenty-two tipped-in color plates on thick matte pages by the wondrous illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Each plate beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magically best; fine tissue guards w/printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Colour-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page b&w imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Full title of John Milton's Comus: 'A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council'. Here, in John Milton's masque Comus, the god is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe, a post-classical invention. The tale concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. When the Lady becomes fatigued, the brothers wander off in search of sustenance. While alone, she encounters the debauched Comus, a character inspired by the god of revelry, disguised as a villager who claims he will lead her to her brothers. Deceived by his amiable countenance, the Lady follows him, only to be captured, brought to his pleasure palace and victimised by his necromancy. Printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd., Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London. 76 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Milton, John & Rackham, Arthur. COMUS. Heinemann, 1921.
Price: US$406.00 + shipping
Description: COMUS, Doubleday, Page / Heinemann, N.d. (although the Latimore and Haskell Bibliography states 1921 as the publication date for this work, several of Rackham's illustrations within are dated 1914), first edition thus with t.p.e.'s gilt, neat gift inscription on the second free end-paper, else a tight vg+ or better copy of this work with all 24 full color tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham as called for, along with other illustrations in the text in the publishers original cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and pictorial stamping.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
John Milton. Comus. Doubleday Page & Co, 1921.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The dust jacket is present, pasted inside the front and back boards. Gilt on spine is faded.Corners bumped. Previous owners name inside. All 24 color plates attached and protected. Spine is weak but no loose pages.
Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
Milton, John. COMUS. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1921.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First US Rackham edition of Milton's masque, one of the artist's less common illustrated titles, a beautiful copy. Quarto. 10.25'' x 7.75''. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Rackham with 24 tipped-in color plates with lettered guards and 37 illustrations. Slight fading to spine.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition of 550, signed and numbered by Rackham. Bound in publisher's 1/2 parchment over beige boards. Gilt images of four creatures on the front cover. Some darkening, soiling to cover. Corners lightly bumped. Blue end pages showing the silhouette of nymphs and fawns. xviii, 76 pages, 24 tipped in color plates & black and white illustrations; 26 cm. Pages are generally clean. Latimore & Haskell, p. 54; Riall, p. 143.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1028.50 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 529 of 550 copies, signed by the illustrator; 4to; 24 tipped in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece, captioned tissue guards, headpieces, tailpieces and full-page black and white illustrations also by Rackham throughout, text clean and bright; publisher's quarter vellum, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, gilt device to upper cover, light spotting to boards, top edge gilt, others uncut or unopened, blue pictorial endpapers, housed in a custom buff solander box; overall a very good example. An attractive limited edition of John Milton's Comus, from an edition of 550 copies signed by the artist, of which this is number 529. Comus is a masque in honour of chastity, first presented on Michaelmas in 1634 before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Milton, John. Comus. William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #506 of 550 copies. Autographed by Rackham. 24 mounted color plates. creme colored binding. lightly stained cover edges
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 550 copies numbered and signed by the Artist, of which 400 are for sale in the United Kingdom, 100 for sale in the United States of America, and 50 for presentation. This is No. 514. Arthur Rackham". Folio 9 1/4" x 12" gift book design. Cream vellum spine wrap w/gilt titles, some rub. Front board features stylized gilt cover titles and several ogre-like creatures including donkey, goat, wolf and owl. Color frontispiece plate w/caption: "All amidst the Gardens fair, Of Hesperus, and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Fine tissue guard w/printed caption. Thick, deckled pages near fine, clean. Gilt top edge w/some rub. Green pictorial endpapers with white silhouettes of four maidens bounding past tree and small satyr-like beings in pursuit. Bind good; hinges intact. Features two dozen tipped-in color plates on thick matte pages by the wondrous illustrator, Arthur Rackham - two more than first edition. Each plate beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magically best; each with fine tissue guards with printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Colour-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page b&w imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Full title of John Milton's Comus: "A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council." Here, in John Milton's masque Comus, the god is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe, a post-classical invention. The tale concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. When the Lady becomes fatigued, the brothers wander off in search of sustenance. While alone, she encounters the debauched Comus, a character inspired by the god of revelry, disguised as a villager who claims he will lead her to her brothers. Deceived by his amiable countenance, the Lady follows him, only to be captured, brought to his pleasure palace and victimised by his necromancy. Printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd., Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.