Lot 507
MILTON John
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
£1,152
Description
The paradise lost ... with illustrations by John Martin ... With 24 mezzotint plates, full polished green morocco antique style binding over bevelled boards, the covers tooled in gilt with a border made up of fillets and rolls, a panel of fillets and rolls with elaborately tooled corners and a central ornament, the spine decorated gilt, with red morocco shield shaped lettering piece, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., a few scuff marks to the lower cover, titlepage loose, some spotting of the plate margins, large 4to., London: Henry Washbourne, 1853