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Lot 530
[CRESSET PRESS]. MILTON, John (1608?1674). Paradise Lost [a...
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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[CRESSET PRESS]. MILTON, John (1608?1674). Paradise Lost [and] Paradise Regain?d. [Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press for] The Cresset Press, 1931. 2 volumes, folio (368 x 254 mm). 16 full?page wood?engraved plates, numerous head? and tail?piece vignettes by Demetrios Galanis, title?page and initials designed by Anna Simons. Original publisher?s cream buckram, gilt?lettered spines, uncut (few spots of finger smudging to covers, else fine). LIMITED EDITION, number 167 of 195 copies from a total edition of 205, printed on Bachelor?s hand?made paper. Taken from the second edition of 1674 and printed in a large format by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press. The last and most beautiful book issued by the Cresset Press.
