MILTON, JOHN | The Works of John Milton. London and Eton: C. Whittingham for Bickers and Son, 1867

MILTON, JOHN

The Works of John Milton. London and Eton: C. Whittingham for Bickers and Son, 1867

8 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black, 1 folding engraved facsimile document, 1 folding letterpress family tree; minor toning, a few stray spots. Uniformly bound for Henry Sotheran in 20th-century tan half calf over cloth-covered boards, spines gilt in six compartments, red morocco label in the second, blue morocco in the fourth, others with repeat decoration in gilt, mottled endpapers, top edge gilt. 

An important edition of Milton's work, which includes Mitford's biography of the great poet and polemicist.