Milton, John; (Illustrator) Henry Lawes; M.R.H. Farrar. Mask of Comus. NONESUCH PRESS, 1937.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tall 4to. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, one of 900 copies. Gilt titles on spine, bevelled edges, cream boards. 15x10.5. 44pp. Colour frontis by M. R. H. Farrar.Pages untrimmed. Dust soiling to covers. Spine is a chipped and split. Tight , Lovely illustrations. Contents fine. Lacks slip case

Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Milton, John and Lawes, Henry. The Mask of Comus. Nonesuch Press, 1937.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Edition limited to 950 numbered copies. Darkening to spine. In a fair slipcase that has splitting.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

John Milton; Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. The poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.' edited by E. H. Visiak. The airs of the five songs reprinted from the composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss.. Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1937.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xxiv, 44, [1] pp. plus 5 full-page color illustrations; folio, full parchment, yapp fore edge, gilt spine title, all edges untrimmed. No slipcase. Text and music type printed at the Oxford University Press on Pannekoek mould-made paper; illustrations by Mildred R. H. Farrar printed from linoleum cuts by the Curwen Press. Number 518 of 950 copies. Very good copy overall; contents fine, covers lightly soiled, foot of spine bumped and showing a one-inch crack, tips rubbed, trace of small neat label removal from front blank. Dreyfus 109.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Milton, John; Lawes, Henry.. THE MASK of COMUS. the POEM, Originally Called `A Mask Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, & ' Edited by E. H. Visiak. the AIRS of the Five Songs Reprinted from the Composer's Autograph Manuscript Edited by Hubert J. Foss. Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London: 1937., 1937.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In VG, sunned slipcase. No. 208 of 950 copies. Large folio, imitation vellum.

Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.

MILTON, John and Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. The Poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c. edited by E.H. Visiak. The Airs of the five Songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1937.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Folio. Foreword by The Earl Of Ellesme. Five color plates printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H. Farrar by the Curwen Press. Papercovered boards stamped in blind with overlapped edges. Spine toned, binding with moderate wear and soil, very good or better, lacking the slipcase. The interior is fine. Copy 435 of 950 copies printed.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Milton, John; Lawes, Henry. The Mask of Comus: The Poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.' edited by E. H. Visiak; The Airs of the five Songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss; With a Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere; Ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar. Nonesuch Press, London, 1937.

Price: US$63.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: xxiv, 44, [4] p., frontispiece and 4 leaves of plates: music; 39 cm. Off-white paper over boards (faux vellum) with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled decoration on both boards. Fore-edges have yapp edges. Linoleum cut title vignette. Slipcase covered in grey paper with color linoleum-cut paste-down on front section. Grey ribbon attached inside slipcase to lift book out. This is no. 499 of a limited edition of 950 copies on Pannekoek handmade paper, printed at the University Press, Oxford, by John Johnson. The illustrations are printed by the Curwen Press from linoleum cuts by M. R. H. Farrar. Bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. The text is taken from the stage copy used in the first performance. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and crisp. Slipcase is in Good Condition: stained at lower edge of front section; lightly soiled; lower section starting to separate, but still solied.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.

Milton, John and Henry Lawes.. The Mask of Comus.. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press., 1937.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Folio. xxiv, 44 pp. No. 645 of 950 copies. Poem edited by E. H. Visiak, airs edited by Hubert J. Foss, with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere. Ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar. Near fine in a very good slipcase, the latter with some tears, old tape, and loss of material along edges.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

MILTON, John and Henry LAWES. The Mask of Comus. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1937.

Price: US$90.69 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus)/ [1634]. Folio, xxiv, 45 pages plus 5 full-page colour linoleum cuts by M.R.H. Farrar. Blind-stamped papered boards with overlapping leading edges; edges uncut and unopened; spine a little sunned; an excellent copy in the slipcase (bowed and unevenly sunned) with an additional colour plate on the front panel (a little browned and foxed). Number 256 of 950 copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper. This edition contains Milton's text and the music composed by Lawes for the original performance of the masque in 1634.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

MILTON, John and Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. The Poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c. edited by E.H. Visiak. The Airs of the five Songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1937.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Folio. Foreword by The Earl Of Ellesme. Five color plates printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen Press. Papercovered boards stamped in blind with overlapped edges. Fine in a moderately worn, good slipcase.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Milton, John; Lawes, Henry.. THE MASK OF COMUS. THE POEM, Originally called `A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &' edited by E. H. Visiak. THE AIRS of the five Songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. With a Foreword by The Earl Of Elle. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London: 1937., 1937.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: pp. xviii, 44 + color frontis and full page color plates printed from the artist's, M. R. H. Farrar, linoleum-cuts at the Curwen Press. Printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Text and music printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. Color drawing on title page. Uncut.Autograph ownership (1931) of Waynesboro, PA financier, industrialist, and press book collector, Jefford F. Oller (1896-1974). . Insert of Nonesuch News, Number One, September 1938. Folio. Original full vellum like paper binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Yapp edges. Gilt lettered spine. Binding by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company. Original slip case, worn and broken. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 416 of only 950 copies. Very handsome copy. PRESS/W38 Language: eng

Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.

John Milton Henry Lawes (music). The Mask of Comus. The Nonesuch Press, 1937.

Price: US$115.94 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: pp XXIV, 44. 1st printing. No 145 of an edition limited to 950 copies. Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine. Prior owner bookplate to FPD. 2 edges untrimmed, very mild toning to flyleaf, in a very good slipcase as published.

Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom

LAWES, Henry [s43 *° Music °*] :. The Mask of Comus (John Milton). The Poem edited by E.H. Visiak. The Airs of the five songs reprinted from the composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar.. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. No.570 of a limited edition of 950 copies. *, 1937.

Price: US$152.02 + shipping

Description: Folio. xxiv, 44pp. Embossed card in worn and faded slipcase. Hand-made paper.

Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom

(Nonesuch Press) John Milton and Henry Lawes.. The Mask of Comus. Edited by E.H. Visiak. With a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar.. Folio, 39cm, pp.xxiv,44[4] + 5 inserts, Published by The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1937., 1937.

Price: US$154.59 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Set in Fell types with De Walpergen s music type and large ornamental initials printed at Oxford University Press on Pannekoek paper. Illustrations from linoleum cuts printed at the Curwen Press and tipped-in. Number 230 of 950 copies cased in simile vellum with yapp fore-edges, embossed with blind arabesques. Slipcase strengthened at one corner. A very good bright copy.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

MILTON, John | LAWES, Henry. THE MASK OF COMUS : ORNAMENTED BY MRH FARRAR, WITH A FOREWORD BY THE EARL OF ELLESMERE. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1937.

Price: US$161.03 + shipping

Description: The poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c' edited by e.h. Visiak; the Airs of the five songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. Imperial 4to (40cm) xxiv, 44 pp. 5 full-page illustrations printed from the artist's linoleum-cuts by the Curwen Press. Original cream boards with Yapp edges and spine lettered in gilt. House in a pale blue slip case, browned in places and somewhat chipped, with another Farrar illustration laid down. Colour titlepage vignette, woodcut initials. One of an edition limited to 950 copies only printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper with the text printed in Fell types and the music of the Airs in Walpergen type. A Fine copy.

Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom

(Nonesuch Press) Milton, John, and Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. With a Foreword by The Earl of Ellesmere. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1937.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: No. 881 of 950 copies. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar. 1 vols. Folio. Laid in prospectus. Mock vellum. Spine slightly tanned, else Fine, in damaged slipcase Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar. 1 vols. Folio

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

MILTON, John [1608-1674] & LAWES, Henry (Music).. The Mask Of Comus The Poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c. edited by E.H.Visiak. The Airs of the five Songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J.Foss. With a Foreword by The Earl Of Ellesme. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1937., 1937.

Price: US$313.21 + shipping

Description: folio. pp. xxiv, 44, [1 leaf]. 5 colour plates (incl. frontis.) printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen press. colour title vignette. woodcut initials. text printed in Fell types & 8 pp. of music in Walpergen type by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. untrimmed in full blind-stamped bds., overlapping fore-edges, by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company. in publisher's paper slipcase, with colour illus mounted on upper cover (some spotting & fading to the slipcase, the text in fine condition). Limited to 950 Numbered Copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada