MILTON, JOHN | Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931
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MILTON, JOHN
Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1931
2 volumes, folio (360 x 260 mm). Printed on handmade paper, wood-engraved illustrations by D. Galanis, title and initials by Anna Simons. Original vellum, gilt spine titles. One of 195 copies, this copy unnumbered. [With] Another copy in publisher's cream buckram. Number 126. First copy with long presentation inscription, the cloth on the second a little rubbed.
The last and most beautiful book issued by the Cresset Press. The text is from the 1674 edition.
Galerie Handschin, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976
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Galerie Handschin, Bâle
Acquis auprès du précédent par le propriétaire actuel en 1976
Duane Michals, Photography and Reality: Retrospective 1958-1990, Winterswijk, 1992, pp. 50-51
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Duane Michals, Photography and Reality: Retrospective 1958-1990, Winterswijk, 1992, pp. 50-51