Paradise Lost by Milton John, Signed (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. With an introduction by Philip Pullman. A UK first edition, first impression - with a complete number string which includes the number 1. Comes with a SIGNED Philip Pullman bookplate loosely laid in. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is very bright, is unfaded, and is complete. It is unclipped. Looks very sharp. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean and unmarked. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. This copy comes with a SIGNED Philip Pullman bookplate loosely laid in. A lovely copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted. Signed by Contributor.

Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Il s'agit de la première édition bilingue de la traduction du Paradis perdu de John Milton (1836), avec le texte anglais original que Chateaubriand dit lui-même avoir utilisé : Paradise Lost [1674], édité par Jacob Tonson (1725).Chateaubriand, catholique et royaliste, s'est pris de passion pour Milton, protestant et républicain. Avec cette traduction, il prétend apporter " une révolution dans la manière de traduire ", à une époque où fleurissent encore " les belles infidèles "." J'ai calqué le poème de Milton à la vitre ". Chateaubriand innove en faisant pénétrer le génie de la langue anglaise dans la langue française, privilégiant ainsi la langue source sur la langue cible. Le français doit se plier à la grammaire et à l'idiome étrangers, ce qui ne va pas sans déplaire aux élites intellectuelles parisiennes ; ainsi Villemain : " il lui a fait prendre [à la langue française] des plis violents et contre nature ; il l'a martelée, il l'a brisée pour l'assouplir à une fantaisie étrangère ".Ce travail inédit se propose de vérifier si Chateaubriand a vraiment fait ce qu'il prétend. Les textes, précédés d'une introduction, sont assortis d'un important appareil critique et complétés par deux index. En annexe, nous avons reproduit le MS 1695 (1835) comportant des extraits de la traduction du Paradis perdu, avec de nombreuses corrections autographes de l'auteur. - Nombre de page(s) : 1358 - Poids : 3801g - Langue : ANGLAIS - Genre : Poésie grand format TEXTES DE LITTERATURE MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). Limited/Numbered. Bound in cloth over textured paper by John Henry Nash, in complete slipcase which is tape reinforced [not with the yellowing found on old clear tape so I assume this is archival tape]. Book with some darkening to the spine. Book is signed by the illustrator on the colophon and is number 1402. Extra shipping charges may apply due to weight. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). Small folio (8-1/4" x 13-1/2") bound in quarter natural Irish linen and rose pastepaper boards with a black vein design, printed paper spine label. Designed, printed, and bound by John Henry Nash. Full-page illustrations by Carlotta Petrina. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Darkening and rubbing to the spine. Very Good in a broken slipcase lacking the back edge, as is often the case.

Hardcover. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). Small folio (8-1/4" x 13-1/2") bound in quarter natural Irish linen and rose pastepaper boards with a black vein design, printed paper spine label. Designed, printed, and bound by John Henry Nash. Full-page illustrations by Carlotta Petrina. Copy #1162 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Slight darkening to the spine. Near Fine in a broken slipcase lacking the back edge, as is often the case.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An Illustrated edition and first thus / first print published by Oxford University Press. This is a near fine copy. There is only very minor wear to corner tips and a small area where the laminate has started to peel at the bottom of the spine. The jacket hasn't been price clipped. The book itself is very presentable. It has been signed by Philip Pullman to the title page, who has written an introduction. Overall a near fine copy and rare to find signed. . Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed by Pullman on title page. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping, now in protective mylar cover. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

[Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page.Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt titles to spine and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy, stored by ourselves since publication. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, and a work whose elements of Good versus Evil and human struggle clearly influenced author Philip Pullman and 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, which takes its name from a famous early passage of Milton's magnum opus, hinting at the existence of other dimensions.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good+. Pullman, Philip (illustrator). 1st edition, thus. Signed by Pullman on title page. Firmly bound black cloth boards lettered in gilt over spine. Boards are clean and pointed. 374p. Crisp, white pages unmarked. Sewn-in pagemarker. Dust jacket included in very good+ condition, protected in brodart, marked by a few small nicks and short tear around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Pllus. Jacob Tonson (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. a very good copy, in full tooled period calf skin with a brown gilt chipped spine label, joints tender, else this would be a fine copy. this is the 1st edition with these 12 copper engravings and frontis of Milton. Hayman is the engraver and Miller is the original artist of these 12 superb plates, clean and fresh, crisp, only tender joints keeps this price so. a lovely lost. By the Binder.

First edition thus: ten-page introduction by Philip Pullman. Octavo. pp [vi], 374. Twelve full-page illustrations reproduced from the first illustrated edition of 1688. The title of Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials, comes of course from a line in Paradise Lost.Signed by Philip Pullman on the title-page.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

First edition thus, first impression, signed by Pullman on the title page. Milton's epic was an important influence on Pullman: in his introduction, he recalls that his famous fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials "began partly with my memories of reading [Paradise Lost] aloud at school so many years before" (p. 9). It was Milton's description of the "embryon atoms" - which reign in hell as chaos "Unless the almighty maker them ordain / His dark materials to create more worlds" (Book II, ll. 915-6) - that gave Pullman's trilogy its title. He remarks that His Dark Materials is a retelling of Paradise Lost, the story which is "the central story of our lives, the story that more than any other tells us what it means to be human" (p. 10). Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers and silk bookmarker. With dust jacket. With 12 full-page illustrations reproducing the engravings of the 1688 first illustrated edition, text printed in black and red. Trivial scratch on front panel of not price-clipped jacket: a fine copy in like jacket.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols, (viii) lxxii 416: 390 [2]pp, this copy has the variant title to volume one (colon after Birmingham) and the title of volume two is in the first state (ie careless overprint - see ESTC), engraved portrait frontispiece to vol 1, full calf, handsomely rebacked, corners repaired, heavily gilt decorated spine, covers slighty worn, paper slightly toned with light foxing (heavier at the start and end of volume 1), contents leaf bound at the rear of volume 2 rather than the start, printed by John Baskerville in Birmingham, bookplates (Thomas Edward Dicey), 4to (17.5x23.5cm), ESTC T133905/T134634. "There are usually no plates, but occasionally a frontispiece (signed Miller) and set of twelve plates (signed Hayman and Miller) are found, . They were supplied by Tonson, who distributed several versions of these designs" (Gaskell).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3vol.set: 364,424,&388pp.; HBs red w/gilt-5 band-gilt tirm; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spines darkened-vol.2w/chip(included); lt.&medium foxing throughout,but clear, & tight pgs. circular stain,ft.endpapers,vol.I. pub.date reads: "1805. - XIII." Title trans.; "Works of Jacques Delille: Paradise Lost, Translated into French Verse" Signed letter by publisher, Michaud tipped in, title. Preface&Remarks in French. Contents in English&French pgs. Vol.I: Livres I, II, III. Vol.II: Livres IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Vol.III: Livres IX, X, XI, XII. Signed by Author(s).

348 x 215 mm. (13 3/4 x 8 1/2"). xiii, [1], 441, [3] pp.Introduction by William Rose Benét. Attractive recent quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, green morocco label. With 16 lithographic plates (one beginning each section of the two poems) by Carlotta Petrina. Quarto-Millenary 84. â Two-inch closed tear in one bottom margin, otherwise a virtually perfect copy--altogether clean and bright internally, in an unworn binding. This handsomely printed and illustrated edition of Milton's masterpiece is the first work the renowned San Francisco typographer and printer John Henry Nash created after his brief "retirement" in April of 1936. At the age of 65, Nash (1871-1947) was then a giant in his field; as ANB says, his "near technical perfection and his use of various typefaces, ornaments, and high-quality materials was esteemed by those who appreciated the craftsmanship involved in such work." He "became the clear leader of his profession in the San Francisco area and thereby helped elevate fine printing to an art form." Unfortunately, the Depression had hit the printing business hard, and Nash's patrons no longer had the funds for extravagant printing projects. His biographer Robert Harlan notes that "the typographical design of this work is unusually austere," but that this "reflected accurately Nash's state of mind." It also evokes the spirit of the Doves Press, with beautiful type, unadorned, surrounded by generous margins. Illustrator Carlotta K. Petrina (1901-97) received a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund her creation of the lithographs for the present book. While she was in the midst of the work, her husband was killed in an automobile accident, a tragedy that no doubt influenced the mournful tone of her illustrations. Milton scholars Wendy Furman-Adams and Virginia James Tufte wrote of her work: "of all Milton's visual interpreters, Petrina is the artist for whom Paradise is most decisively and tragically LOST. And it is Eve who bears the heaviest weight of grief and expiation." Typically, if a private press book like this has been rebound, the value of the volume is decreased, but this item is an exception, both because the original binding of cloth-backed boards is less attractive than what is offered here, and also because it is normally found in ratty condition. No. 1,185 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED in the colophon by the illustrator.

Engraved frontispiece portrait and 12 engraved plates. [xvi], 328pp. 1 vols. 16mo. From the Library of Jane Pollard - Dorothy Wordsworth's Friend. With the highly interesting provenance of the intimate friend and correspondent of Dorothy Wordsworth, JANE POLLARD (later Marshall) whom Dorothy knew from her childhood in Halifax, where Dorothy lived for a time with her mother's cousin, Elizabeth Threlkind, after her mother's death. Newly deprived from her mother, her father and her brothers, the friendship of Jane Pollard must have meant much to her, for it would last a lifetime, and there are many letters to her in published collections A marvelous Wordsworth association. Contemporary calf, lower board missing; front cover, frontispiece and title page detached. Inside front cover bears the wood-engraved bookplate reading "JANE POLLARD" within an ornamental border, beneath which in the ms. number "No. 75"; signed "Jane Pollard's Book" above the bookplate; and, above her name, signed by her father "Willm. Poll" Engraved frontispiece portrait and 12 engraved plates. [xvi], 328pp. 1 vols. 16mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Peter Paul Bouche, M. Burghers (illustrator). First Edition Thus. "Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books" by John Milton. First Illustrated Edition. Published in London in 1688, by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson. Engraved Frontispiece with an additional 11 full page engravings (Lacking an engraving). Fourth Edition; First Illustrated Edition. Binding measures 13.75 by 8 1/2 inches in a modern half leather binding with marbled boards. Pages measure approximately 13.25" x 8.25" (34cm x 21cm). Possibly the large paper copy, also carrying the watermark of grapes on the title and at least one other page. Text is continuous despite erratic pagination; one of three imprint variants of this edition. Frontis portrait (plate) of the author signed: R. White sculp. Some plates signed by M. Burghers and Peter Paul Bouche. The most important work by one of England's most important poets - with striking and beautiful large format engraved illustrations. The publisher also included an engraving of Milton, with a verse by John Dryden comparing him to the great Roman and Greek epic poets. The book was sold at a high price to 500 subscribers, who are listed at the back of the book to give it additional distinction. The title page is laid down on a contemporary page which matches the rest of the book. At the bottom of the spine there is an embossed date of 1788, an unfortunate binder's error as the title page date clearly states 1688 in Roman Numerals (MDCLXXXVIII). Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(K9-14).