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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGS MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem... the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937 image 1
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Lot 259

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGS
MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937

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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGS

MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem... the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, number 155 of 196 copies on paper, from an overall edition limited to 200, wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, untrimmed in original black half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf with marbled paper sides by Sydney Cockerell, spine gilt, t.e.g., original boards, slipcase (worn), folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937

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