Milton (John) The Poetical Works, with a Life of the Author by William Hayley, 3 vol., no half-titles, with 3 engraved portraits of Milton and 28 fine stipple-engraved plates after Richard Westall, tissue guards, wide margins, some light marginal foxing and occasional offsetting, contemporary engraved book-label of Richard Hoare, contemporary russia, gilt, g.e., rubbed and a little scuffed, spine of vol.1 chipped at foot, folio (c.425 x 325mm.), by W. Bulmer and Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol, 1794-97.
⁂ Handsome edition combining superb typography, fine paper and wonderful illustrations. Some copies are recorded with a portrait of Milton and his daughters after Romney, and with a facsimile of a manuscript, and an index at the end of volume 3, none of which is present in this copy.
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