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L'Allegro by John Milton / illustrated by the Etching club.

Accession number
PML 145897
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : Published for the Etching club by Joseph Cundall, 1849.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered in red and black.
3 prelim. leaves followed by 20 illustrated leaves with letterpress text and etched vignettes; all leaves consist of proofs printed on india paper and mounted on bound leaves of card.
Illustrated with etched vignettes by C.W. Cope, T. Creswick, J.C. Horsley, R. Redgrave, C. Stonehouse, F. Tayler, and H.J. Townsend.
Each plate accompanied by a guardsheet.
"The poem is printed from the original edition of 1645."--3rd prelim. leaf.
Description
[3, 20] leaves : ill. (etching) ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown calf tooled in blind and lettered in gold, by Hayday.
Classification
Department