The Shorter Poems of John Milton. With twelve illustrations by Samuel Palmer, painter & etcher.

  • Milton, John
  • London: Published by Seeley & Company 1889

£300

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Description

Folio, pp. xx, 124 + 12 photogravure plates with tissue guards. Half-title and title-page printed in red and black. Original blue cloth, front board and spine blocked and lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Some foxing to flyleaves, small mark to half-title, a little offset to title-page. Binding slightly rubbed and a touch worn, darkened around the edges, cloth split to head of front joint. Ink inscription to K.E.M. Mackarness to front flyleaf.

Notes

The first edition of this tribute to painter and engraver Samuel Palmer's (1805-1881) lifelong fascination with Milton's poetry published by Palmer's son Alfred Herbert Palmer (1853-1932). The plates are photogravures of the engravings that make up Palmer's 'Milton Series', with his son finishing his preface by stating 'I would persuade myself to hope that the work has been done as he himself would have wished it done'.

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