Lot 223
Cresset Press.- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., printed on vellum, Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Cresset Press.- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., out-of-series copy printed on vellum, from an edition of 205 of which 10 on vellum, 16 wood-engraved plates and 4 head- & tail-pieces by Demetrios Galanis, title-pages and initials designed by Anna Simons, vol.2 with an additional signed & mounted plate on paper (?proof) loose in compartment at end of vol.2 (possibly missing more), tissue guards, contemporary black and white pigskin with clasps and lettered in silver, g.e., a little worn, lower joint of vol.1 cracked, folio, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931.
⁂ The final book issued by the press. Taken from the second edition of 1674, the text is here printed in a large, simple but visually pleasing format by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.
Description
Cresset Press.- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., out-of-series copy printed on vellum, from an edition of 205 of which 10 on vellum, 16 wood-engraved plates and 4 head- & tail-pieces by Demetrios Galanis, title-pages and initials designed by Anna Simons, vol.2 with an additional signed & mounted plate on paper (?proof) loose in compartment at end of vol.2 (possibly missing more), tissue guards, contemporary black and white pigskin with clasps and lettered in silver, g.e., a little worn, lower joint of vol.1 cracked, folio, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931.
⁂ The final book issued by the press. Taken from the second edition of 1674, the text is here printed in a large, simple but visually pleasing format by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.