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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained. & Minor Poems. Two Volumes. Leather Binding.
by MILTON, JOHN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, George G. Harrap & Co. 1909. Two Volumes. Soft leather bindings, 7 x 5 inches. Art Nouveau Full soft calf leather bindings with blind embossed floral decorations in the style of Talwin Morris to fronts. In very good condition. Spines a little sunned and rubbed at spine ends, tiny nick at top end of Paradise Lost. Minor tanning to edges of endpapers and prelims, page edges rough/uncut. Else pages all very clean and tight. Else very good clean and tight copies. 323 & 224pp. Each illustrated with a decorative engraved frontis portrait plate of Milton.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95212
- Title
- Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained. & Minor Poems. Two Volumes. Leather Binding.
- Author
- MILTON, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, George G. Harrap & Co. 1909
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE MILTON, JOHN: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, leather, Talwin Morris, Decorative, Design, Covers, floral, minor poems, Art Nouveau
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- G
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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