Description

2 vols., in 1, 16mo., with engraved title-vignette, and numerous engraved head-pieces (a number coloured by hand); original dark green diced cloth, boards elaborately framed in blind, back gilt extra, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, new hand-made endpapers, a most attractive, crisp, clean copy. Contains Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Sampson Agonistes, Comus, Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Sonnets, Odes, Miscellanies, Translations, Elegies, Epigrams, Miscellaneous Poems, Milton's Account of Manso, An Ode, Encomiums upon Milton. The first volume contains Paradise Lost with separate title and pagination, the second volume the remaining works with separate titles but continuous pagination. THIS MANCHESTER IMPRINT IS VERY SCARCE.