THE POETICAL WORKS

by Fore-Edge Paintings, John Milton

$2,800 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1843 . 207 x 135 mm. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 . Two volumes. With a memoir and critical remarks by James Montgomery. Pleasing contemporary burgundy pebble-grain morocco, gilt, covers with graceful frame of cresting roll accented with lancets, large lyre centerpiece with leafy flourishes and small birds, raised bands, spine compartments densely gilt, gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges

• Binding: Leather

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