Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MILTON, JOHN. The Poetical Works. Etched divisional head- and tailpieces by Gerard Vander Gucht and Samuel Gribelin after Louis Chéron. [20], 590, [14]; [8], 527 pages, including engraved frontispiece portraits of Milton by George Vertue. 2 volumes. 4to, 291x221 mm, contemporary calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, spine ends worn, joints cracked, cords intact; occasional toning and foxing, some pencil marginalia, most noticeably at beginning of first volume. 19th-century armorial bookplates of Bere Court Library. London: Jacob Tonson, 1720

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Joseph Addison's Notes upon . . . Paradise Lost are reprinted from the Spectator on pages [535]-590 of Volume 1.