illustrated with engraved plates
MILTON, John.
Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books.
London, Printed for Richard Bently in Covent-garden, and Jacob Tonson in Chancery-lane near Fleetstreet, 1691.
Before his death Milton had reorganised the work into 12 books, consciously adopting the division used by Virgil in the Aeneid, and thereby making 'explicit the parallel with the epics of classical antiquity' to which he had always aspired (ODNB).
A lovely example in contemporary mottled calf richly decorated in gilt. With provenance for the Cholmondeley family of Condover Hall, and the British Liberal part MP Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941).
Fifth edition, 'adorn'd with sculptures'; folio (320 x 200 mm); engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 further engraved plates (one for each book), slight staining to B1 recto, a little toned, later endpapers preserving earlier bookplates to front pastedown; contemporary mottled calf, covers with triple gilt roll border incorporating motifs of fleurs-de-lys, tulips and acorns, gilt spine in 7 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to second compartment, all edges gilt, slightly rubbed and abraded, joints a little split at spine ends but holding, neatly conserved, very good; [4], 336pp.
ESTC R42173; Wing M2149.
Stock code 123906
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Paradise Lost.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
£1,850.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
£285.00
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
1897.
First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
£17,500.00
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1892; 1894.
A delightfully illustrated two volume set of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
£3,900.00
