Translations William Cowper (2 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Part of the introduction.John Milton was born in the City of London on the 9th December 1608. His father, also a John Milton, came of a family in Oxfordshire, and had been liberally educated in his youth. Change to the side of the Reformers in religion obliged him to depend upon his own resources, ands he went into business as a scrivener, in Bread Street, Cheapside; there he prospered and married. Of his children only three, Anne, John, and Christopher, outlived their childhood. He first provided for the education of his son John, by placing him under the care of Thomas Young, of Loncarty in Perthshire, who was about twenty years old at the time of the poet's birth. Milton was sent to St Paul's School in the year 1620, and Thomas Young went a year or two later to be chaplin to the English merchants at Hamburg. One of the Cassell's National Library Series Nos. 34 Advertisements on both endpapers. No Dust.Jacket Illustrated blue hardback with gold lettering and designs. Faded lettering on spine, and some marks, signs of slight rusting on inner spine back endpaper, otherwise clean tight copy in good condition.192pp plus 6pp of adverts Other Nos in this series available. Published 1886 by Cassell & Company Limited Book#102691.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Somelight foxing to end pages. How to Last Longer and Other Sexual Solution.