Milton | Early poems, London, Ballantyne Press, [1896], half turquoise morocco

John Milton

Early poems. [London: Vale Press] (printed by the Ballantyne Press), [1896]

4to (255 x 194mm.), one of 310 copies, woodcut full-page frontispiece with white vine-stem border, white vine-stem woodcut initials, all by Charles Ricketts, contemporary half turquoise morocco, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, final quire lightly foxed

A fine early production from the Vale Press, founded in 1896 by Ricketts.

PROVENANCE:

Harry Palmes Cunard, booklabel dated 1933; John William Waterer, bookplate