The Poetical Works. MILTON (John).

BOUND BY RIVIERE FOR JOSEPH WALTER KING EYTON

The Poetical Works. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford.

Engraved frontispiece portrait in both volumes, folding table and folding facsimile in vol.1. Titles printed in red and black.

Two volumes. 8vo. [227 x 145 x 72 mm]. viii, [v]-ccii, 270 pp; xx, 415, [1] pp. Contemporary binding by Riviere (signed in blind) of brown goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a triple fillet border and triple fillet panel with large and small ornaments in the corners. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and at the foot, the others with centres and corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt double fillet, the turn-ins with gilt rolls, marbled endleaves, gilt over red edges. (Spine and joints rubbed and refurbished with minor chips to headcaps).
London: [printed by C. Whittingham for] William Pickering, 1851

Printed in an edition of 250 copies. Frontispiece in vol.1 foxed and off-set; some light browning and spotting. The two volumes were bound by Riviere for Joseph Walter King Eyton (1820-1872), and have his large rectangular bookplate printed in black on a preliminary leaf in each volume, along with his large oval bookplate on the front pastedowns. This is evidence that Eyton continued acquiring and having books choicely bound after the dispersal of his outstanding library in 1848.

Stock no. ebc8857