BOOK
Comus, a mask.
- Date
- 1901
- By
- Milton, John, 1608-1674, Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, Savage, Reginald, Edward Arnold (Publishers), Samuel Buckley & Co, Essex House Press
- Notes
Caption title.
Written by John Milton
"Printed under the care of C.R. Ashbee, at the Essex House Press, with a wood block frontispiece by Reginald Savage ... Published in England by Edward Arnold ... and in America by Samuel Buckley & Co. ... New York ... 150 copies only, and all on vellum"--Colophon.
Hand-coloured frontispiece (woodcut) and printer's device, (p. [1], 3rd set), hand-colored initial letters in red and gold, text printed in black and blue, colophon text "Reginald Savage" hand-lettered in red on painted white background.
The eighth of the great poems series. Cf. Tomkinson.
Binding: vellum, blindstamped with rose blossom and letters "Soul is form," spine stamped in gilt, hand-sewn, pages protected by loose sheets of glassine paper.
Tomkinson, G.S. Modern presses, p. 73
frontispiece and p.1 Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.
Alexander Turnbull Library copy exhibited ; RPr ESSEX MILT 1901 (115729) copy 1 : Collecting Pandemonium: John Milton at the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1 December 2008 - 14 March 2009
The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 1. Provenance: bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull. Copy no. 50. Acc. 115729.
The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 2. Provenance: transferred from the ATL General Collection, 2008. Copy no. 77. Acc. 366058.
Digital image available: frontispiece and p.1, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 1. Details on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.
- Source URL
- frontispiece and p.1 https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1712547
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection
- Other Titles
- Milton's Comus
- Publisher
- [London] England : E. Arnold ; New York : S. Buckley & Co., A.D.MDCCCCI [1901]
- Format
- [4], 47, [1] p. (pages [1-3], 1st set, are blank) ; 20 cm.
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