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Price: US$80.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 16mo (slightly taller than 16.5 cm.), lxxi (beginning with title), [1], 319, [1], [25] (index), [2] (ads) pp., frontis., 12 plates; age toning and age staining throughout, early and late leaves tattered including the frontis., title torn and crudely sewn together with minor loss, several interior leaves have long tears, M1 with loss of a few words, working copy only in modern maroon cloth. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Disbound: boards and prelims and last page (publisher ad) detached. Leather heavily worn, lacks title label to spine. Some foxing, else pages clean and bright. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
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$250.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, lxxi, [i], 319, [25], [2] pages. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary brown leather with gilt lettering on red spine label. Cracking to leather on spine, and some splitting to hinges. Wear to leather along edges. Engraved frontispiece of Milton, with twelve additional engraved illustrations throughout. Light offsetting from plates. Age-toning, soiling, and finger marks to interior pages. Ink price to front free endpaper. Signature of William Moore on second free endpaper and title page, Elizabeth Moore on rear pastedown. Shelved in Case 0. Wickenheiser 721. Wickenheiser quotes John Shawcross as stating: "This is a false imprint. It is a reissue of the 1772 edition, and it may be dated 1785." 1373960. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$572.41 + 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$699.61 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo, 202 x 123 mms., pp. [xvi], liii [liv - lviii tributes],.25 [26 blank], 500; [ii], 456 [457 - 582 Index], engraved frontispiece and 5 other engraved plates in volume 1, engraved frontispiece and 5 other engraved plates in volume 2, handsomely bound in later (early 19th century) full panelled calf, with a gilt border on each cover and an elongated lozenge in lighter calf with interior gilt border on each cover, spines gilt in compartments, marbled end-papers; some water-staining in last 30 leaves of volume 1, most noticeably in last 11 leaves, marginal worming in about half the leaves of volume 2, occasionally affecting one or two letters of text, most noticeably in the index, very slight worming of lower rear joint volume 2, slight wear to joints, but a very attractive binding, with the small rectangular binder's ticket of Dickenson, St. Edwards's Passage, Cambridge on the front paste-down end-paper of volume 1, the rubbers stamp of "Richd. Hopkins St Ives Huntingdonshire" on the verso of the front free end-paper of each volume, and the contemporary autograph "Miss W E Coote" on the recto of the front free end-paper of each volume. Although the title-page is dated 1770, the typography is more consistent with printing types found in the early 19th century; moreover, it is printed on wove paper, while the text is printed on laid paper and is clearly from the 18th century. There appear to be three issues of this work in 1770, with various names in the imprint. This seems to be ESTC N32814 (O, PEN; MH; ZWTU). The collation does not match that of Coleridge 130 or 131.
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, 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.