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John Milton & Arthur Rackham: Comus

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Description

Book Title: Comus

Author: John Milton

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Publisher: Librairie Hachette, Paris

Date: 1921

Size/Format: 4to

Edition: #235 of 300 copies

Bound in 1/4 white vellum, pictorial boards. Complete with 24 color plates tipped onto heavy brown stock, with captioned tissue guards. This French edition is not listed in Latimore and Haskell.

John Milton was a 17th century English poet best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse, which earned him his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem addresses the Fall of Man, and Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

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