Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BASKERVILLE PRESS.) Milton, John. Paradise Lost. [30] (of [32]), 416 pages; lacks initial blank * Milton, John. Paradise Regain'd. [2] (of [4]), lxix, [1], 3-390 pages; lacks initial blank * Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times . . . Fifth Edition. Engraved frontispiece in Volume 1; 4 vignettes on general and volume titles and 8 in text. [4], iv, 364, [2]; 443, [1]; [4], 410, [50] pages, with cancelled states of C3 and E1 in Volume 1 and D4 in Volume 3. 3 volumes. Together, 5 volumes. 8vo, the Miltons 221x142 mm, in red morocco gilt by Brian Frost & Company, Paradise Lost rear cover slightly sunned at top, Shaftesbury 229x139 mm, in brown sprinkled calf gilt by Morrell, slight chip at top of Volume 3 spine; contents of all generally clean. Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758; 1758; John Baskerville, 1773

Additional Details

first baskerville editions; octavo issue of the Miltons. Gaskell 4, 5, and 49.