Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 9,000
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times.

London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, 1645.



First collected edition, octavo, two parts in one volume, with divisional title for Latin poems and change in collation; A Mask with divisional title and continuous collation & pagination); engraved portrait of Milton by William Marshall bound opposite the general title page; lacking first blank; some headlines touched; bound in slightly later speckled calf, housed in a custom folding case; 6 x 3 1/2 in.

Wing M-2160; Pforzheimer 722; Wither to Prior 572; ESTC R202162.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.