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MILTON, John (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
Published by William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co. in London and New York [1921]
SKU: 58515
£250.00
FIRST TRADE EDITION 4to. dark green cloth hardback with decorative gilt titles to spine and upper board. Lacking dust jacket. Top edge green. Decorated endpapers. xviii, 76pp., illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), all with captioned tissue-guards, 8 full page b/w drawings and many b/w vignettes, head and tail pieces throughout. Small ink gift inscription, dated 1929, to half title. Occasional light foxing, slightly heavier to prelims. A couple of tiny chips to top edges of colour plates IX and XXIV (please see photo) and faint crease to lower corner of colour plate XIII. Otherwise all plates in lovely clean, bright condition. Slight rubbing and wear to spine edges and a couple of very faint marks to boards. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY.

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