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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON - THE ALBION EDITION
by Milton, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/ACC/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LEATHERBOUND "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Albion Edition.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1888* Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon leather, gilt title to spine & face. Light bumps, minor rubs to edges & corners. Top front edge split. Considerable wear & some ageing to head and tail of badly worn spine. Some gilt decoration to internal edges of boards. ACC.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (very dark brown or black). No annotations or inscriptions. Minimal foxing to postlims. All edges bright gilt. Text clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. VG+.* Illustrations: None (This edition does not have an illustrated frontis.* Pages: 581 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The complete Poetical Works with a memoir, explanatory notes, etc.. If for nothing else, this volume is an excellent study version of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. The Memoir is also illuminating for those intent on understanding Milton.* A NEAR VG++ text copy with minor faults reduced by binding age and wear to ACC. No dust jacket, now in un-attached clear lucite protective wrapper.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6008
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON - THE ALBION EDITION
- Author
- Milton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/ACC/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus ?
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 581
- Date Published
- 1888-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Bumps
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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