MILTON (J). PATTISON (M), ed.: The Sonnets of John Milton. Edited by Mark Pattison. [First Edition thus]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FINE PAPER EDITION , Kegan Paul Trench, 1883

Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, endpapers mildly browned, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary, later signature on front free endpaper; most attractively bound in the original ivory faux-vellum, upper board and backstrip lettered in red and blocked in black, gilt top, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. With nineteenth century personal bookplate (matching inscription) on front paste-down, and the nineteenth century binder's ticket of Burn & Co on rear paste-down. Published in 'The Parchment Library', this scarce edition attempts a chronological arrangement and includes analysis of the form and translations of Langhorne and Cowper. Scarce, especially in this condition. NCBEL I, 1239; Stevens 628. (Book ref. 19683)  £60.00

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