Allegro Tapa dura - 1976

Scolar Press, 1975. 0859672743. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered pictorial light grey cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (extrems lightly worrn - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 24, illus on every page with etchings on steel by Birket Foster and with blank paper guards between each page (no inscriptions).

Scolar Press, 1975. Reissue . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Birkett Foster, Myles. Unpaginated but circa 80pp. Cream cloth-covered boards with vignette, gilt lettering, bevelled edges. Brown endpapers. Two colour printing throughout. With thirty illustrations by Birkett Foster, each tissue-guarded and interleaved. There is a small indentation on the edge of the rear board, else the volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (bumped and rubbed at edges, mild chips at spine ends). The thirty designs in this now classic book, originally published in 1855, are characteristic of the best work of Myles Birkett Foster, one of the most versatile of English illustrators. The delicate vignettes subtly compliment Milton's poetry, which debates the rival delights of mirth and melancholy. 4to.

The Scolar Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Foster, Birket. Clean throughout. DJ with some wear, now in archival cover.

London:: Scolar Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0859672743 . Illustrated with steel etchings by Birket Foster. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine (a few short closed edge tears) dust jacket. .