- JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST A POEM, PRINTED
JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST A POEM, PRINTED 1688 John Milton, Paradise Lost a poem, 1688, (+2),343 p.p. (+8), (+66), (+6), (+57, First illustrated and first folio edition bound without list of subscribers and with watermarks, includes "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agronistes". Publisher Miles Flesher for Richard Bentley. Some pages have been rewritten in manuscript. Illustrations not present. Wing M-2148; Grolier Wither to Prior 607; (Hodnett Five Centuries of Book Illustration 1988, p. 63); Shawcross 345
- 2VOL J. MILTON PARADISE LOST, BASKERVILLE
2VOL J. MILTON PARADISE LOST, BASKERVILLE PRINTING Two volume set containing Paradise Lost: and Paradise Regained by John Milton. Both published 1758 by noted printer John Baskerville. Books are in matching full brown leather binding. Raised bands on the spine highlight the gilt titling. In addition, the name Baskerville is done in gilt at the bottom of the spine. Gilt pages edges. List of subscribers in the volume with Paradise Lost. 8vo.
- MILTON'S PARADISE REGAIN'D (1752) John
MILTON'S PARADISE REGAIN'D (1752) John Milton. PARADISE REGAIN'D. A POEM, IN FOUR BOOKS. TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES; AND POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, WITH A TRACTATE OF EDUCATION. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752. Hardcover. Leather-covered boards with raised bands on spine. 32mo. [i-iv], [1], 2-342, [355-357], 358-380pp.
- SELECTION OF BOOKS WITH WILLIAM BLAKE
SELECTION OF BOOKS WITH WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATIONS Comprising five fine press titles, including Blake, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE (London: Folio, 1997) 5th Printing; facsimile of the original book with transcription, 12mo, pictorial cloth, slipcase; John Bunyan, THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, illus. by Blake (NY: Limited Editions Club, 1941) #746/1500, 4to, cloth; THE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (Norwalk, Ct.: Easton Press, 1995) 4to, full leather; John Milton, PARADISE LOST illus. by Blake (London: Folio, 2006) 4th Printing, folio, half leather, moire silk boards, slipcase; and Blake, JERUSALEM (London: Folio, 2007) apparent 1st printing, folio, half leather, moire silk boards, slipcase.
- PHILADELPHIA CHIPPENDALE DESK AND BOOKCASEAn
PHILADELPHIA CHIPPENDALE DESK AND BOOKCASEAn important Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany three-part desk and bookcase, ca. 1775 , with carved pediment attributed to Martin Jugiez, featuring a broken arch with scrolled fretwork centering a bust of John Milton, 104 1/2" h., 42 1/4" w. One other Philadelphia desk and bookcase with a bust of Milton is known and currently resides in an important private Pennsylvania collection. Alan Miller assisted with the cataloging of this lot. Illustrated: Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, Volume Three , pg. 4 (bust sketch) and pg. 260; The Magazine Antiques , February 1934, pg. 41. Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament .
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Condition:
Chips to corners of cornice. A couple repaired cracks to cornice. Upper door panels with newer interior liners, but they do appear to be original. Brasses replaced. Feet are period but probably associated with case. Some alterations to backboards of lower section.
- FINE & SMALL PRESS, (10) VOLUMES, SOME
FINE & SMALL PRESS, (10) VOLUMES, SOME SIGNED Includes: 1) Tennessee Williams. It Happened the Day the Sun Rose. Sylvester & Orphanos, 1981, "Presentation Copy" of 330, signed by Williams, in slipcase; 2) Norman Mailer. Of a Small and Modest Malignancy... Lord John Press, 1980, #109/300 signed, in slipcase; 3) James Merrill. The Image Maker. Sea Cliff Press, 1986, #72/220 signed; 4) Alice Boughton. Photographing the Famous. Avondale Press, 1928; 5) Samuel Johnson & Horace Gregory. Critical Remarks on The Metaphysical Poets. Golden Eagle Press, 1945, illus. by Kurt Roesch; 6) Lytton Strachey. Ermyntrude and Esmeralda. Anthony Blond, 1969, illus. by Erte; 7) John Milton & Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. Nonesuch Press, 1937, #374/950, in slipcase; 8) and 9) two Christmas booklets from race car driver George Arents: "Miss Muffett's Christmas Party" by Samuel Crothers, illus. by Theodore Bolton, 1957, and "A Christmas Letter from Kate Greenaway", 1954; 10) Quattrocentisteria: How Sandro Botticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo and signed by him, Golden Cross Press, 1937, No. 23 of 175, in slipcase; 15.75"h x 10.5"w (largest)
- 2-Part brass and stained glass screen,
2-Part brass and stained glass screen, brass frame with leaded stained glass insert, each panel with round portrait of William Shakespeare & John Milton centered, surrounded by stained & painted glass floral & geometric decoration, c 1870-90, European, each panel 38-1/2"h x 19"w, minor cracks in surrounding glass
- A STAFFORDSHIRE WHITE PORCELAIN BUST
A STAFFORDSHIRE WHITE PORCELAIN BUST OF JOHN MILTON late 18th century, the poet depicted head and shoulders, it is believed to be a trial Wedgwood bust after Flaxman R.A. Etruria 1790, 15.5cm high Provenance: Bt. Sotheby’s, 19th April 2000, The Gillingham Collection, lot 103.
- 79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80
79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
- "MILTON SHIELD" CAST COMPOSITE STONE
"MILTON SHIELD" CAST COMPOSITE STONE WALL ORNAMENTA vintage cast composition wall ornament, after the"Milton Shield," originally designed byLéonard Morel-Ladeuil(French, 1820-1888) in 1867. The shield illustrates John Milton's "Paradise Lost," with a central medallion depicting Adam and Eve with the archangel Raphael. Pate-sur-pate style low relief decoration over acomposition ofreconstituted stone and minerals. Circa third quarter 20th c.
Measures approximately 32" x 24" x 3".
Condition
Very good condition.
- 19th Century. Two presentation ewers
19th Century. Two presentation ewers and baptismal bowl. coin silver, Britannia standard silver. 8¾ h × 5½ w × 4 d in. result: $1,063. estimate: $1,000–1,500. Blynn & Baldwin example inscribed ‘Ohio State Board of Agriculture Premium John Milton Sherwood 1855’, Columbus, USA, c. 1855.
William Adams example inscribed ‘Awarded by the American Institute To Chas. G. Teed for the best pair of Fat Durham Steers 1857’, New York, USA, c. 1857.
Marked to each example.
Sold with a baptismal bowl for the Parmelee family inscribed with fourteen names and dates ranging from 1704-55, London, England, c. 1704. Britannia standard mark, engraved monogram ‘P’. Measures 9 dia inches.
- WEDGWOOD POTTERY, JOHN MILTON BUSTDepicts
WEDGWOOD POTTERY, JOHN MILTON BUSTDepicts famous English poet and intellectual.
Dimensions: 5.25"L x 3"W x 6"H
Manufacturer: Wedgwood
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Age related wear.