1935. New York: The Heritage Press, 1935. Original blindstamped red calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, in the original red card slipcase. Ends of backstrip lightly worn, slipcase lightly rubbed and marked, boards bright, a fine copy internally. § A beautiful printing of the Song of Songs. "Designed and Decorated, and..... More
2003. London: Folio Society, 2003. Folio, xxiv, 304 pp. 12 full color illustrations by Blake, including frontispiece. Quarter green goatskin, gilt lettered backstrip, orange moire silk boards, full color illustrated slipcase. Faint scuffing to slipcase else fine, new as issued. § A very handsome presentation of Milton's great epic with..... More
1924. New York: Macmillan, 1924-1927. 6 vols, 8vo. Each vol. bound in the original quarter robin's egg cloth over paper covered boards with printed labels, pastedowns with Charles Ricketts' illustration of hawk, unicorn, fountain and moon. Very good copies with almost no foxing and just occasional browning of endpapers, backstrips..... More
1878. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1878. Folio. Full page plates with tissue guards, plus title vignette and other decorations. Original burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Scattered foxing, backstrip faded. Ex-library copy with shelf mark in white pen on backstrip, bookplate on..... More
1821. London: John Sharpe, 1821. 8vo, xxx, 134 pp. Extra engraved title and five other plates with illustrations by Richard Westall engraved by W. Finden. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crushed green morocco paneled with a triple gilt fillet, backstrip with raised bands ruled in gilt and blind, the..... More
1805. London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1805. Small 8vo, vi, [3], viii-ix, [1], 119, [1] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 wood engraved plates. Bound by Stikeman in three quarter green morocco over marbled boards, backstrip gilt with red and burgundy..... More
1947. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Large 8vo, xix, 298 pp. Illustrated. Full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering to upper cover and backstrip, backstrip lightly stained and scuffed, slipcase slightly faded and with some scuffs, internally a fine copy. § Copy #666 of 1500 copies, signed by..... More
