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MILTON, John (1608-1674). Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, Compos'd at Several Times. London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1645.
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MILTON, John (1608-1674). Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, Compos'd at Several Times. London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1645.
2 parts in one, 8o (149 x 94 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Milton by William Marshall. (Lacks a1 blank, final text leaf with inner margin renewed and repaired tear crossing text, trimmed close, with some page numbers shaved.) 19th-century maroon morocco gilt, spine gilt, edges gilt by Lloyd, Wallis, & Lloyd (front cover detached, front free endpaper with tear along gutter). Provenance: R.B. Adam (1863-1840), noted collector of books and manuscripts by Samuel Johnson and his circle (bookplate, given to); T.T.M., perhaps Tom Moseley, see lot 101 for Adam's inscription to Moseley in Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (gift inscription from R.B. Adam on front flyleaf).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF MILTON'S POEMS, AND THE FIRST TO BEAR MILTON'S NAME ON THE TITLE-PAGE. This edition reprints "Comus," "Lycidas" and several shorter works and includes for the first time the majority of Milton's verse, including "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso." The only poems written by Milton up to that date not included are "On the death of a fair infant dying of a cough" and "At a vacation excercise in the Colledge." The second part collects Milton's verse written in Latin and is headed by a separate title-page. Marshall's portrait, the first Milton ever published of himself, was so unflattering that Milton had him add to it mocking verses in Greek, exposing the engraver's incompetence. The imprint on the main title-page occurs with the variant readings "Pauls Church-yard" and "S. Pauls Church-yard" (as here). There is no evidence to support that these are separate issues, nor that there is any priority to their issue. Grolier, Wither to Prior 572; Hayward 71; Pforzheimer 722; Wing M-2160.
2 parts in one, 8
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF MILTON'S POEMS, AND THE FIRST TO BEAR MILTON'S NAME ON THE TITLE-PAGE. This edition reprints "Comus," "Lycidas" and several shorter works and includes for the first time the majority of Milton's verse, including "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso." The only poems written by Milton up to that date not included are "On the death of a fair infant dying of a cough" and "At a vacation excercise in the Colledge." The second part collects Milton's verse written in Latin and is headed by a separate title-page. Marshall's portrait, the first Milton ever published of himself, was so unflattering that Milton had him add to it mocking verses in Greek, exposing the engraver's incompetence. The imprint on the main title-page occurs with the variant readings "Pauls Church-yard" and "S. Pauls Church-yard" (as here). There is no evidence to support that these are separate issues, nor that there is any priority to their issue. Grolier, Wither to Prior 572; Hayward 71; Pforzheimer 722; Wing M-2160.