THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON with a Memoir; and Six Embellishments by Fuseli, Westall and Martin

A fine and handsome illustrated edition in an excellent Regency binding. With finely engraved plates by Westall, Fusili and Martin and an engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, very finely bound in Regency straight-grain full red morocco beautifully gilt decorated all over, both covers fully emblazoned with fine gilt tooling in an arabesque design, incorporating blind fillet lines at the borders, the spines fully gilt in tooled compartments between raised bands and gilt lettered in one compartment, edges and turn-ins gilt tooled, all edges gilt. [viii], 527 pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved inside and out, a bit of foxing here and there, some offsetting onto the text from a few of the plates, still a very handsome copy of an group of works, luxuriously bound .

Edizione: a gem of an edition beautifully bound. all of milton’s great works, including: paradise lost, paradise regained, samson agonistes, comus, the sonnets, odes, miscellanies, etc. it also includes a memoir of the life and writings, the important essay on the poetical genius of milton.<br> milton revived the heroic verse of homer and virgil to frame the tale of satan and paradise that has become the best-known epic poem written in english. he had difficulty in finding a publisher because of the plague of 1665, which killed many pressmen, and the great fire of the following year, which destroyed many printing houses—and those publishers who were still operating were wary of the project because of milton's anti-restoration sympathies. fortunately, he eventually found one as the poem is now considered among the most important milestones in the language.<br> the fine red morocco regency binding is an added pleasure to the book here presented.