Milton John Preface Peter Ackroyd (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.15.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. William Blake (illustrator). This is a fine, as new, folio size hardcover second printing copy with the much improved binding and slip case. Green leather spine, golden moire boards, top edge tinted in a fine, as new green slipcase with the pasted Blake colour plate of Eve. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.

Lg quarto, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to green faux leather spine, top page edges stained blue, frontispiece, xxi + 304pp, illus, VG+ (sl soiling to spine & page edges, light soiling to front eps) in slipcase, VG (light bruising, moderate scuffing & soiling to edges).

HardBack. Condition: Good. First Edition. Beautifully produced leather and silk bound volume, Elephant Folio sized in slipcase. 1st Printing, Folio Editions, 2003. 304pp. Coloured frontispiece and 11 further full page plate illustrations by the great William Blake. Appears unopened and unread, light sporadic foxing fortunately limited to fore-edges of leaves and slight smudge to title page, else internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered green Nigerian goatskin leather, backed over orange moire silk boards, top edge publisher's green to match. Housed and protected in original green dusted slipcase, featuring Blake's painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in full colour, unseen shelf edge with closed edge tears and surface loss 5" thus reduced, book itself has great shelf presence at open end of case, painting chipped to extremities. A great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike. Huge heavy tome (14" x 10.5" x 1.5"), will incur additional postage particularly overseas and possibly prohibitively outside Europe. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. Folio Society 2004 3rd printing. Beautiful caramel colored moire cloth boards with green leatherette spine. Text pages are crisp and clean. Beautiful illustrations by William Blake. Color illustrated slipcase is noticeably scuffed and rubbed, some soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Folio Society Ltd. , London, UK. 2006. 304 pgs. Illustrated in color. Fourth Printing. Issued in paper covered slipcase with color pastedown present to the front board. Slipcase lightly scuffed and worn. Bound in 1/2 green leather and orange silk moire boards with titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

1/4 Morocco. Condition: Fine. Blake, William (illustrator). 1st Thus. xxi, 304 pp. Green morocco spine over light orange moire silk boards, with top edge burnished blue in a pictorial slipcase. Very slight rubbing to slipcase, otherwise this is a lovely fine copy. Full-page colour illustrations by William Blake. 4to. Illustrated.