May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions.

London: Printed [by William Rawlins?] for Thomas Dring at the White Lion, 1673.

Second edition, variant, with the publisher's address "at the White Lion," as opposed to "at the Blew Anchor"; including new poems not published in the first edition of 1645, octavo, bound in full contemporary English sheepskin boards, neatly rebacked, corners chipped and bumped, later wove endleaves; some discoloration to title, short closed tear repaired on verso; ex libris H. Snooke with his name at the head of the title dated 1676; bookplates of English art collector and politician William Fuller Maitland (1844-1932) and English literary journalist Charles Whibley (1859-1930), 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.

Wing M-2161; Pforzheimer 723; Shawcross 313; ESTC R22485.