Id5.3.16
Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso / illustrated with etchings on steel, by Birket Foster.
Portion of title: Allegro and Il penseroso
London : W. Kent & Co., 1859.
[iv] p., 24 leaves interleaved with guards : ill. ; 28 cm.
Text in red, illustrations in black.
Armorial bookplate of Edward Herbert Wood (1847-1886), Newbold Revel, on front lining paper. Ms. note on front flyleaf: "Edward Herbert Wood from his sincere friend and wellwisher Edward Walthall Delves Boughton -- on his leaving Eton. Easter 1865".
19th-century red morocco over ?millboards. Covers decorated with triple gilt fillets to form a border and panel with gilt roll and tools at the inner corners; gilt centrepiece; gilt roll on board-edges and turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling ("Milton's l'allegro e il penseroso"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of green and plain paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
England London.
eng
B53011