John milton; henry lawes (30 Ergebnisse)

unknown_binding. Zustand: Very Good. Book like new protected by wax wrapper in sun faded slipcase. No sandglass.

hardcover. Zustand: As New. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Laid-in newsletter.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Heritage Press Nd 1955? January 1955 Binding: Hardcover.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. No slipcase. Endpapers slightly spotted. The Heritage Club Sandglass III/20 laid in. (poetry, allegories, temperance, chastity, songs).

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Very Good. Heritage Press.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. No date in book, circa 1957 per Worldcat. Very good hardcover with black cloth & marbled paste downs & gilt on spine, all bright & clean with light wear. Interior pages excellent, vibrant images, no marks, slight age toning. Slipcase is sturdy with edge tears & strong fading/toning. Lovely book. See photos. Edmund Dulac (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No date stated. Slipcase Good. (poetry, allegories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Easton Press bookmark affixed to inside front, else fine. BP/KRM.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Limited Edition. In VG, sunned slipcase. No. 208 of 950 copies. Large folio, imitation vellum. fmc2%262D.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated with water-colors by Edmund Dulac. "The Heritage Club Sandglass" Number III: 20, laid-in. Gilt printed navy cloth spine with marbled paper covered boards. Previous owner signed the front paste down- otherwise this is a clean, nice copy. Very Good in a slightly toned, sunned slipcase.…

Slip Case. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor Slip Case. Limited/Numbered. Limited edition of 950*copies, this being numbered 180. Includes 4*colour illustrations. xxiv, 46pp. Slip case is heavily worn and the panels are detaching. Bound in gold simile vellum with yapp fore-edges, embossed with blind arabesques. Page edges left untrimmed. Light soiling to vellum. Farrar, M R H (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Limited Edition #301/1500. Octavo, 57 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition slip case. Spine is off-white vellum with gilt lettering. Slipcase has mild general scuffing and rubbing wear with a small chip along the closed end. Boards have mild general soiling and bending wear along joints. Shelved in hallway overflow. 1394986. Special Collections.…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. Near fine with very good glassine dust jacket in a very good slipcase. A few tiny spots on a few pages. Dust jacket is darkened on spine and around edges with a two inch tear at top of spine. Light scratches on slipcase.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Jacket Condition: 'Poor' Condition: 'Fine' Notes: Original Heritage Press edition printed at Cambridge University Press by Brook Crutchley. Illustrated with water-colors by Edmund Dulac. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Black quarter cloth marbled boards. Gilt is solid and bright. Bookplate to front free endpaper, otherwise pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent. Slip case edges have browning, otherwise it is in near fine condition. Original glassine dust jacket is missing spine, has chips and tears, etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Folio. Foreword by The Earl Of Ellesme. Five color plates printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H. Farrar by the Curwen Press. Papercovered boards stamped in blind with overlapped edges. Spine toned, binding with moderate wear and soil, very good or better, lacking the slipcase. The interior is fine. Copy 435 of 950 copies printed. …

Zustand: Very Good. Original souvenir programme 9'' x 6''. Contains 4 printed pages. Comus was written in 1634 by John Milton and his friend, Henry Lawes, the Royalist musician, for their patron, the 1st Earl of Bridgewater, the then owner of Ashridge. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES. …

Zustand: Used: Like New. Hardcover with slipcase as new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Small 4to. [8], 3-57, [19] pp. Quarter stiff white cloth over marbled paper boards, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Housed in a black paper slipcase. Title page printed in blue and black. Illustrated with several full-page watercolors by Edmund Dulac. Copy number 551 out of 1500 copies done. These illustrations were the final ones that Dulac did before his death. With a preface by Mark Van Doren and Hubert Foss (one for each poem included here). Rubbing to the spine and slipcase, a touch of foxing to the textblock.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Folio. Foreword by The Earl Of Ellesme. Five color plates printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen Press. Papercovered boards stamped in blind with overlapped edges. Fine in a moderately worn, good slipcase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus)/ [1634]. Folio, xxiv, 45 pages plus 5 full-page colour linoleum cuts by M.R.H. Farrar. Blind-stamped papered boards with overlapping leading edges; edges uncut and unopened; spine a little sunned; an excellent copy in the slipcase (bowed and unevenly sunned) with an additional colour plate on the front panel (a little browned and foxed). Number 256 of 950 copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper. This edition contains Milton's text and the music composed by Lawes for the original performance of the masque in 1634.…

Zustand: Good. Folio. xxiv, 44 pp. No. 645 of 950 copies. Poem edited by E. H. Visiak, airs edited by Hubert J. Foss, with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere. Ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar. Near fine in a very good slipcase, the latter with some tears, old tape, and loss of material along edges.

Hardcover. The poem, originally called 'A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c' edited by e.h. Visiak; the Airs of the five songs reprinted from the Composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss. Imperial 4to (40cm) xxiv, 44 pp. 5 full-page illustrations printed from the artist's linoleum-cuts by the Curwen Press. Original cream boards with Yapp edges and spine lettered in gilt. House in a pale blue slip case, browned in places and somewhat chipped, with another Farrar illustration laid down. Colour titlepage vignette, woodcut initials. One of an edition limited to 950 copies only printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper with the text printed in Fell types and the music of the Airs in Walpergen type. A Fine copy. Book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. A lovely Nonesuch limited edition copy of John Milton's comical masque, complete with colourful plates. A Nonesuch limited edition of nine hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered eighteen.In the original slipcase, in a very good condition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour vignette title, and five colour plates. Collated, complete.A comical masque in honour of chastity by John Milton, here put to music by Henry Lawes. The plot follows two brothers and their sister as they are lost in a woods. The sister is left by herself, an encounters the debauched Comus, the Greek god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances.This masque was originally performanced at Ludlow Castle on Michaelmas in 1634, before being published anonymously in 1637.Edited by E. H. Visiak and Hubert J. Foss, and with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere.Illustrated by M. R. H. Farrar. In the original publisher's paper covered boards, in the original paper covered slipcase. Externally, smart. Only a couple of very light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Slipcase is smart, a little sunned. A few light marks and rubbing to the slipcase, in a very good condition. Fine. M. R. H. Farrar (illustrator). book.…

No. 881 of 950 copies. No. 881 of 950 copies. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar. 1 vols. Folio. Laid in prospectus. Mock vellum. Spine slightly tanned, else Fine, in damaged slipcase Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar. 1 vols. Folio.

Vellum. Zustand: Near Fine. A lovely Limited Editions Club edition of Milton's 'Comus' and Henry Lawes 'The Airs', adorned with vivid watercolours by Edmund Dulac. This copy is number 980 of 1,500 copies printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club of New York.In the original quarter vellum with French marbled paper boards. With the original cloth-backed slipcase. Original glassine loosely inserted.Colour frontispiece and five further colour plates. Collated, complete.Printed here, for the sixth in the Twenty-third Series of the fine books made for Club, is John Milton's masque, 'Comus', which was first presented on Michaelmas 1624 before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle. Together with 'The Airs' of leading English songwriter of the same period, Henry Lawes, dedicated to John Lord Viscount Brackly, son and heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater.Brightly illustrated with watercolours by French-British artist Edmund Dulac, known for illustrating the novels of the Bronte Sisters and for his magazine illustrations after the First World War. He also designed banknotesduring World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning ofQueen Elizabeth II's reign.With a Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club (November 1954, Number 256) loosely inserted. In the original quarter vellum with French marbled paper boards. With the original cloth-backed slipcase. Original glassine loosely inserted. Externally, excellent, with only a hint of bumping and a couple small marks to the spine. Slipcases is very smart, with a few light marks to the cloth. Glassine is toned and creased, with edge wear and loss to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. Edmund Dulac (illustrator). book.…

folio. pp. xxiv, 44, [1 leaf]. 5 colour plates (incl. frontis.) printed from the linoleum cuts of artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen press. colour title vignette. woodcut initials. text printed in Fell types & 8 pp. of music in Walpergen type by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. untrimmed in full blind-stamped bds., overlapping fore-edges, by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company. in publisher's paper slipcase, with colour illus mounted on upper cover (some spotting & fading to the slipcase, the text in fine condition). Limited to 950 Numbered Copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper.…