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John Milton
A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton
1698
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Finely bound set of Milton's works.
- Sold as a set of 3.
- John Milton (English).
- Amsterdam: [S.n.], 1698.
- Folio.
- 3 Vols, Vol. 1: ([4], 5-48, iv, 120, [22], 139-270 p., 271-274 l., [2], 275-441, [1], p. 442, [1]. Vol. 2: [4], 443-528, 525-568, 545-812, [2], p. 819, 836-837, 822-872 p. Vol. 3: [4], 112, 105-363, [1] pages.
- Title page in red and black.
- Volume 3 has title: Joannis Miltoni opera omnia Latina.
- Internal title pages in volumes 1 and 2 are dated 1694, and have continuous pagination and register.
- Volume 1 includes index for The history of Britain.
- The first leaf of Volume 3 is blank.
- Bound in early full brown leather with blind tooling to boards, gilt ornamentation, and lettering to paneled spines.
- Bindings of volumes 1 and 2 match, Vol. 3 is a similar binding with slightly more elaborate tooling.
Condition Report
GoodWith repairs and re-backing.
A few scattered marking to endpapers and margins of all three volumes.
Shelf wear, chipping, scratching to boards.
Some cracking to joints of Vol. 3.
Text blocks age-toned and foxed with scattered light damp staining and scattered small stains.
Open tear to lower corner of Vol. 1 p. 27-28.
Archival repair to closed tears on Vol. 1 p. 31-32.
Small open tear to upper fore edge margin of Vol. 1 p. 85-6.
Closed tear to lower margin of p. 337, impacting text but not legibility.
Damp staining to upper edge of Vol. 3 text block throughout.
Scattered annotations to Vol. 3 text.
Small open tear to upper corner of Vol. 3 p. 109-110.
Several open tears to blank endpapers at the end of Vol. 3.
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