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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

New.

London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. 1791. Octavo. Lacks the front board and the backstrip: the full leather rear board is detached but still present. Title page, xlvi, Poems title page, pp 608, rear endpaper. Pages browned. A poor copy of a very early edition. The text is complete. Custom binding is available from the bookshop. 2nd Edition.

Hardback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 6x1x9.

for James Dodsley, London, 1785. [title continued]: epigrammatum liber, sylvarum liber. With notes critical and explanatory, and other illustrations, by Thomas Warton, Fellow of Trinity College and Late Professor of Poetry at Oxford.First edition thus. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 620-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, spine with wide ornamental gilt rules with gilt ornaments within, burgundy letterig piece. Joints cracked but holding well, corners rubbed. Contemporary signature on front free endpaper. Internally very clean.

London: James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of John MIlton's poems edited by the literary historian Thomas Warton. The first Thomas Warton edition.ESTC citation number T134607.Page 164 is misnumbered 146.A collection of the poems of John Milton, the noted English poet and civil servant during the Commonwealth of English.This edition contains Milton's original poems, as well as his noted translations. Contents include 'At a Solemn Music', 'Epitaph on Shakespeare', 'Lycidas', 'Horace to Pyrrha', 'Naturam non Pati Senium', and more. Milton is best known for his 1667 blank verse epic poem 'Paradise Lost', a poem which is generally considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever.Warton was a literary historian, and Poet Laureate.Bookplate of Richard Luckett to the front paste down. Ink notes to the front paste down, verso of the front endpaper, and to a rear blank. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards restored.… Read More

London: James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. A collection of John Milton's poetry. Containing poems in Latin and Italian, with English translations. Edited by Thomas Warton, with extensive critical notes. First thus, the first edition of this anthology edited by Warton. Comprising of hundreds of poems including odes, sonnets. Also containing his 'Comus' which was commissioned for masques for noble patrons. The editor, Thomas Warton, was a popular literary historian and critic. He was also Poet Laureate of England for five years. With the bookplate of James Franch Bright to the recto of front endpaper. Bright was a British historian and a Master of University College, Oxford. He wrote several works including English History for the Use of Public Schools and The Growth of Democracy. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love… Read More

James Dodsley, 1785. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1