first edition Hardcover
1783 · Dublin
by MILTON, John, James Thomson, Edward Young
Dublin: Printed for the Company of Booksellers, 1783. Hardcover. Good. First edition thus. 12mo. pp. [i-iii] iv-xxiv, [1] 2-288. With an engraved title page illustrated with three portrait vignettes. Bound in contemporary stained calf, gilt spine with red leather label. Small early ownership signature in ink on the title page, an additional ownership signature has been neatly clipped from the top margin of the dedication leaf. The binding is worn, front board is detached, still a good copy: the text pages are clean and tight. (Inventory #: 286832)