first edition
1907 · [Hammersmith
by MILTON, John
[Hammersmith: Sold at The Doves Press, 1907. DOVES PRESS. Hammersmith: Sold at The Doves Press, 1907].
Limited to 325 copies, of which this is one of 300 copies on Batchelor paper. Small quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 235 x 165 mm). [10, blank], 73, [1], [1, colophon], [15, blank] pp. Printed at the Doves Press by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, from the first edition “printed in the yeare 1644.”
Bound by The Doves Bindery in full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Usual mild toning to vellum binding. Otherwise a near fine, attractive copy.
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 95. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 251, no. 12. Tomkinson, p. 55, no. 12.
HBS 69281.
$3,500. (Inventory #: 69281)
Limited to 325 copies, of which this is one of 300 copies on Batchelor paper. Small quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 235 x 165 mm). [10, blank], 73, [1], [1, colophon], [15, blank] pp. Printed at the Doves Press by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, from the first edition “printed in the yeare 1644.”
Bound by The Doves Bindery in full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Usual mild toning to vellum binding. Otherwise a near fine, attractive copy.
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 95. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 251, no. 12. Tomkinson, p. 55, no. 12.
HBS 69281.
$3,500. (Inventory #: 69281)
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