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Milton | Early poems, London, Ballantyne Press, [1896], half turquoise morocco
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Lot Closed
July 19, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Milton
Early poems. [London: Vale Press] (printed by the Ballantyne Press), [1896]
4to (255 x 194mm.), one of 310 copies, woodcut full-page frontispiece with white vine-stem border, white vine-stem woodcut initials, all by Charles Ricketts, contemporary half turquoise morocco, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, final quire lightly foxed
A fine early production from the Vale Press, founded in 1896 by Ricketts.
PROVENANCE:
Harry Palmes Cunard, booklabel dated 1933; John William Waterer, bookplate