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Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton - Volume 3. William Pickering, London, 1851.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Volume 3 only. Full leather. 5 Raised bands. Page edges in bright gilt. Front board nicely reattached with nylon thread otherwise tight with leather in nice condition. Clean, bright text. Contains: Samson agonistes, Comus, L'Allegro, Arcades, Misc. Poems, Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber and others. Good condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vol. I and II. Half brown leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and embellishments, raised bands on spine. Morrocan leather label beginning to peel on vol. I. Spines still look nice on a shelf. Pages/boards clean, bindings sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: cxxxiv, 153 plus 4 pp list of Publications of W. Pickering, 372, 334 pp. Vol. 1 has extensive Life of Milton, Addenda, Appendices and frontispiece portrait, steel engraving. Cloth is slit at spine back fold in 2 vols, loose at back on vol. 3. Wear at edges. Otherwise book block is sound and tight. Frontispiece is foxed. All volumes have occasional foxing. Spine title labels are brownish.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eight volume complete set of poetry and prose works, and considered by some to be the finest version. The text blocks have survived well with bindings tight and no foxing or spotting to speak of. The base fore-corners of several volumes are strongly worn and rounded, no text affected. The bindings are original, with strong wear to corners of many of the boards, hinges all supple and strong, paper labels very browned and worn, and the spine ends are worn and frayed, not threatening to worsen and not beyond the attentions of a good book doctor - the bindings remain servicable as-is. Various frontis and other plates are in good order throughout. One or two of the board faces have some water-splash marks, the rest retain some of their original ribbed-cloth lustre. Price includes extra for worldwide air-priority shipping. Size: Royal 8vo
Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$878.39 + shipping
Description: Very good copies bound in navy cloth. Title-printed spine labels, somewhat worn. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some minor surface staining to boards on some volumes. Previous owner's signature to the ffep of each volume. Scattered foxing, mainly to the prelim. and terminal leaves of each volume ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 8 v. : ill., fold. facsim., fold. geneal. tab., port. ; 23 cm. Contents: Poetical works, v. 1-2; Prose works, v. 3-8. "The Life is formed on that which appeared by the same writer in the Aldine edition of the Poetical works of Milton, 1831, with some additions and alterations." Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- English literature - 17th century. Notes: Decorative title pages in red and black. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: 8 volumes. First of the Edition. With a portrait and handwriting facsimile. Title-page in red and black with the fine Pickering device on the title in red and black. Large 8vo, in a period binding of full brown morocco, lettered and decorated with blind ruled and decorated borders in panel designs within compartments of the spine, gilt lettered within panels in two compartments, elaborately decorated covers employing three wide lines forming blind ruled borders enclosing a large arabesque decoration at the center of the covers executed in blind, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. A handsome set with some age evidence, some corners and tips rubbed, the upper cover to Vol. VII detached, but easily restored as necessary. A HANDSOME SET of the works of one of the greatest literary men the English language has produced. The verse and the prose are like diamonds and pearls of equal beauty. Along with Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, it also includes Samson Agonistes, Lycidas and all the Miscellaneous Poems, the Sonnets, the three "Libers", translations and the foreign poems and the author''s prose works aas well. In PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED and SAMSON AGONISTES Milton revived the heroic verse of Homer and Virgil to frame the tale of Satan and Paradise that has become the best-known epic poem written in English. He had difficulty in finding a publisher because of the plague of 1665, which killed many pressmen, and the Great Fire of the following year, which destroyed many printing housesand those publishers who were still operating were wary of the project because of Milton's anti-Restoration sympathies. Simmons, to whom he finally came, drove a hard bargain, and according to the agreement reached and the number of copies sold Milton was paid a total of £15. Miltons work survives and is revered to this day as amongst the most significant poetry and prose ever penned and additionally important, at a defining moment in the development of the English language. A truly towering figure, Milton remains one of the most celebrated and analyzed poets in English literature. Dryden described Paradise Lost as one of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced, while Blake, keying in on the poems heretical implications, described Milton as a true Poet, and of the Devils party without knowing it.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$964.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copies bound in navy cloth. Title-printed spine labels, somewhat worn. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some minor surface staining to boards on some volumes. Previous owner's signature to the ffep of each volume. Scattered foxing, mainly to the prelim. and terminal leaves of each volume ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 8 v. : ill., fold. facsim., fold. geneal. tab., port. ; 23 cm. Contents: Poetical works, v. 1-2; Prose works, v. 3-8. "The Life is formed on that which appeared by the same writer in the Aldine edition of the Poetical works of Milton, 1831, with some additions and alterations." Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- English literature - 17th century. Notes: Decorative title pages in red and black. 10 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
John Milton. The Works of John Milton In Verse and Prose. William Pickering, London, 1851.
Price: US$2318.87 + shipping
Description: A very smart collection of John Milton's poetry and prose, complete in eight volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco. A very smart set, uniformly bound in full red morocco prize binding, with gilt detailing and motif of Trinity College Cambridge to the front board. First edition in this format. Complete in eight volumes. This collection is comprised of eight volumes, consisting of two volumes of John Milton's poetical works and six volumes of Milton's prose. With a frontispiece of John Milton to volume one. With a prize bookplate awarding the set to Arthur from the Head Lecturer of British medieval history, Henry Richards Luard, on behalf of Trinity College Cambridge, dated June 1857. Rebound in full red morocco. Externally, excellent, with light rubbing to the extremities and to the joints. A touch of fading to the spine. The occasional spot and light offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate to the front paste down of volume one. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd spot. Offsetting from frontispiece to title page of volume one. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom