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Bloomsbury, London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. 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.
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 by Milton, John and Henry Lawes. With a Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere - 1937
by Milton, John and Henry Lawes. With a Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere
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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
by Milton, John and Henry Lawes. With a Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere
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Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. #74 of an edition limited to 950 copies. 39 cm x 25 cm, pp. xxiv, 44 (8 of which are musical scores, printed from types with a seventeenth-century provenance), [4] + 5 inserted full-page colour illustrations, colour vignette to title-page. Illustrations by Mildred R.H. Farrar were printed directly from linoleum cuts by the Curwen Press on wove paper and tipped in. These were Farrar's only book illustrations. Unopened copy. All edges untrimmed. Cased in 'simile' vellum covered boards with yapp fore-edges, covers blind-stamped with rules and arabesques, gilt-stamped spine title. Grey paper covered slipcase with an additional colour illustration printed from linoleum pasted on. Bookplate of the Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies to front pastedown, else interior very clean and bright. Covers bright and clean, darkening to spinestrip. Uneven sunning to slipcase but primarily along open edges, slightly soiled, head and tail of open edges splitting at the corners, paper bubbling on the reverse, otherwise good and secure. Drefus: History of Nonesuch #109. . Illus. by M.R.H. Farrar.
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- Place of Publication Bloomsbury
- Date Published 1937
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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
by MILTON, John and Henry Lawes
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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
by MILTON, John and Henry Lawes
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Bloomsbury, London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. 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.
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