Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Milton, John (1608-1674)
The Works.

[London: no printer], 1697.



First collected edition containing the prose works only, (an augmented edition was published in the following year), ex libris Henry Coape (1704-1778) with signature and note that the book was given to him by Samuel Hacker (Coape's mother married Hacker after the death of Henry Coape senior in 1707) on ffep; bound in contemporary English calf, ruled in blind compartments and sprinkled, neatly rebacked, corners repaired, with appropriate red lettering piece on spine; housed in a custom slipcase; final blank present with offsetting from title on verso, contents very good; purchased from Seven Gables in 1968, 12 1/4 x 8 in.

Wing M-2086; ESTC R16873; Shawcross 393; Pforzheimer 728; Turnbull 72.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.