The Traveller; L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (two works bound in one volume)

Author(s): Goldsmith, Oliver; Milton, John

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	The Art-Union of London
Publication Year:	1851
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	003790
Catalogue(s):	Poetry, Poetical Criticism and Poets ◇ Rare and Antiquarian Books ◇ Illustrated Books

Two titles bound in one volume. The Traveller (1851): iv, 14pp, plus frontispiece and 30 further illustrations expressly designed for the Art-Union of London. L'Allegro (1848): iv, 16pp, plus frontispiece and 30 further illustrations expressly designed for the Art-Union of London. Half-bound in brown, Morocco leather over textured cloth (silk moire?), with gilt lettering and decorate and leather title label on front panel. All edges gilt. (Boards rubbed at edges, especially corners and spine ends, where leather is worn, a few mild marks). Marbled endpapers. Some mild, scattered foxing, largely not affecting plates. Previous owner's blind embossed stamp. Imposing, handsome volume, likely created to co-incidence with the Art Union's contribution to the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. .

Keywords:

engravings plate illustrations crystal palace art union of london milton goldsmith great exhibition