THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY JOHN MITFORD (TWO VOLS BOUND AS ONE)
by Milton, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1852. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth, blind-stamped decoration on front boards, edges rubbed, repaired at head to replace missing 1" of cloth, spine heavily decorated with gilt harpist design. Two volumes bound as one, contents are very good clean and tight. Bookplate remains. Quite a scarce tome. ; 10" x 7" .
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- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18651
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY JOHN MITFORD (TWO VOLS BOUND AS ONE)
- Author
- Milton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Phillips, Sampson, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- First Edition, Poetry, MILTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Nanaimo, British Columbia
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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