John Milton; Francis Peck: New Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton

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John Milton; Francis Peck : New Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton

Contemporary full calf rebacked expertly, spine in six compartments of raised bands, black morocco label on two, all edges speckled red. , An excellent copy, text is clean and crisp, 4to, P. frontis, title, blank, iii-vi, (1), blank, (4), 1-437, blank, (1), blank, (1), blank, i-v, 6-57, blank, (1), i-iii, 4-34, (1), blank, 1-7, blank, (2), 1-6, (2)., Title page in red and black, elaborate head and tail pieces and initials throughout. With two plates, including the mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Milton by J. Faber and a copper-engraved plate.

The critical notes on Milton and Shakespeare are remarkable, as being perhaps the first attempts made to illustrate their writings by extracts from contemporary writers, in accordance with the method subsequently followed by Steevens and Malone. (National Biography), Bateson II:911

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