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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1770, Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, printers to the University. Frontispiece picture. 10-1/4" x 16", 552 pgs. Was a reference book in a library only markings are labels on inside of front and back covers and pencil number on a couple pages. Poor hardcover. Front cover detached as is the title page; Title page has tears, chips, brown spots and ink notations. Cover in rough condition. Pages easily readable but have some light toning and foxing. Oversize and heavy book - extra postage charges for priority mail in the U.S. and all mail out of the U.S. International mail is extremely expensive.
Seller: Larimar Animal Books, Morristown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$564.64 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first Foulis edition, complete, [12], 466, [10] pages, with engraved portrait of Milton on the title page. Very well re-bound with original boards, marbled endpapers and free endpapers, new spine in style with headbands. Text block very clean and sound, small loss to corner of page 1 (not affecting text).
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, United Kingdom
John Milton. Paradise Lost. Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1770.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio, modern deep crimson simulated half morocco gilt, a sturdy copy with the usual scattered foxing and usual uniform embrowning. The List of Subscribers is present, and this is a regular paper copy. Gaskell Foulis; 510; Coleridge 132; Kohler 46. Because this is a heavy item, extra postage may be required, with the exact amount depending upon the destination of the parcel.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, Glasgow, 1770. Poor. Approx. 13'' by 8.25''. Full leather binding, spine with raised bands, outer binding original, but in poor condition. Inner book is generally clean & still well bound. Subscriber list, summary of the arguments within the poem. 466pp of the poem plus index. Portrait of Milton on title page and marbled endpapers. 3 pages at front have a tear and there is an ink stain on the edge. (see pictures). From the library of Lockhart of Cleghorn with their bookplate on the front pastedown. With an inscription 'Barbara Lockhart from her sister Mrs Jamieson' on the front endpapers.***Heavy & will require overseas postage***
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: Large (demy) folio, pp. [12], 466, [10]; engraved vignette portrait of Milton on the title page; contemporary full diced russia, triple gilt rules on covers, gilt-paneled spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1, a.e.g.; rebacked with old spine laid down; extremities a bit worn and the joints rough; otherwise very good. Among the subscribers to this edition are Dr. William Hunter who took 6 copies, Lord Monboddo, James Beattie, and David Hume. The book was also issued in a smaller (foolscap) folio. Gaskell 510.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First Foulis edition, large paper issue. Engraved title-page portrait of Milton. [xii], 466 pp. 1 vols. Folio (14-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches). "Things unattempted yet ." The J.R. Abbey Copy. The Abbey copy of the Foulis Press Milton, which stands as one of the great achievements of 18th-century printing as well as arguably the finest setting of this greatest of all English epics. In a fine contemporary red morocco binding. Gaskell 510. Provenance: J.W. Lancaster (gift inscription from Honorable Harriet Douglas, March 12, 1821); Sylvester, Lord Glenbervie (bookplate); C.F. Wyatt (bookplate); Major J.R. Abbey (bookplate dated 1932; his sale, Sotheby's 1965, lot 484, £40 to Joseph, thence to David Magee) Contemporary full red morocco, covers gilt with wide floral border, center medallion comprised of small acorn, bird's head and thistle tools, spine with raised bands and seven panels, richly gilt with small tools in six, lettered in the one, marbled edges. Light wear to extremities, a few minor scuffs to coves and spine, with one small repair to spine panel. In a custom cloth slipcase Engraved title-page portrait of Milton. [xii], 466 pp. 1 vols. Folio (14-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.