Milton Hilaire Belloc Antiquarian Books,Biography & Autobiography,Engravings,History,Illustrated

Milton By Hilaire Belloc. London [:] Cassell and Company LTD 1935 8 vo. , 316pp, Full blue morocco, with gilt strap-work enclosing laid-in to the upper cover, a miniature watercolour portrait of Milton on vellum, glazed with 2 gilt rules encircling it, spine tooled to match covers with gilt decorsted raised bands, wide morocco turn-ins with gilt corner pieces, all edges gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), blue marble endpapers. Title page, tissued portrait frontis, half title, 11 extra-illustrations in text-3 are tinted, binding tight. book plate inner fly. Case is blue fold-over cloth with velvet lining. In fine condition.