The Poetical Works of John Milton in a special edition. Published by Gall & Inglis, London. Includes a special edition cover with inset floral illustration and gilt decoration. There are four quadrants of gilt illustration on the cover. The cover corners are crushed with underboard exposed. The gilt title block on the backstrip pulls back slightly from the left. The back cover is embossed. The endpages are brown and good. There is a stamp on a free-fly page. There is soiling on the title page. There is illustrated detail in the margin throughout the book. There is gilt on three-sides of the foredge.
The book includes a section on Life of Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Miscellaneous works, Sonnets, Psalms, Translations, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Italian Sonnets and more. There are engraving illustrations in black and white. Many illustrations have a dark soil spot in the upper gutter as pictured. It's not clear why this dark soil spot is around the illustration plates. 491 pages. Size. 7.75”
