Edited Introduction Percy Ames (3 results)

Hb original post office red binding xxv,171pp Illustrations Very light sunning to spine o/w a Near FINE Copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Original Edition. Hardback. Scarce copy. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Very slightly sunned spine to cloth. Dark Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Early in the year 1908 the Council of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom decided to commemorate the Tercentenary of the birth of John Milton by a series of popular lectures to be delivered in the autumn of that year by Fellows of the Society. Contents: Introduction. Portraits of Milton. Milton's Knowledge of Music. A Note on Milton's Shorter Poems. Milton and the Liberty of the Press. On the Conception and Treatment of Satan in 'Paradise Lost' and the 'Inferno'. Milton and the grand Style. Milton: His Religion and Poems, Ecclesiastical as Well as Theological. Paradise Regained. The Royal Society of Literature and the Study of Milton. Milton in Hungary.222 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Asher and Co. 1897. Hardback, NO DW. Bound in brown half calf, contrasting black label to spine, gilt, with gilt decoration to spine compartments. Slim 8vo. Portrait frontis. + illustrated throughout. Top edge gilt. Spine darkened, board extremities a little rubbed and worn. Pages a little browned o/w contents clean and sound.