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CRESSET PRESS MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, for the Cresset Press, 1931 image 1
CRESSET PRESS MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, for the Cresset Press, 1931 image 2
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CRESSET PRESS
MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, for the Cresset Press, 1931

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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CRESSET PRESS

MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., number 187 of 195 copies, titles and initials designed by Anna Simons, wood-engraved plates and tail-pieces by D. Galanis, slight mark to one plates, publisher's cream buckram, spines lettered in gilt, slight soiling, both volumes in modern calf-lipped slipcase, folio, Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, for the Cresset Press, 1931

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