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Comus (1921) with illustrations by Arthur Rackham
A rare copy of the First Edition published by William Heinemann Ltd (London)
The current auction is for an original and complete vintage 1921 First Edition of Comus with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Published by William Heinemann Ltd (London), this edition is sumptuously illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and monotone illustration.
Copies of this Edition are rare offerings - it will make an increasingly valuable addition to any collection.
Comus (1921)
A rare copy of John Milton s Comus - illustrated by Rackham and co-published by William Heinemann (London) and Doubleday Page & Co (New York) in 1921.
Despite the noted co-publishing citation, all copies of this 1st Edition were printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd of Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London, SE1.
To the left, we shown the original decoratively
gilt-stamped green cloth cover.
On the right is shown the decorative
Title Page for this 1st Edition.
The Masque of Comus was a 17th Century moral tale borne from a collaboration between John Milton and Henry Lawes. It
tells a story about virtue and grace, two matter upon which Milton had meditated profoundly. The tale is of a lady, lost from
her brothers in a wood, who is threatened by the son of Bacchus and Circe. The loss of her virginity follows but through
supernatural means, she is saved.
The original performance of The Masque of Comu ...
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HISTORICAL RARE BOOK & THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY / INVENTORY / RESEARCH ARCHIVE.
INSTANT HISTORICAL and THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY containing in-part over 30,000 books and pamphlets.
Over 1650 feet of books and ephemera shelved and available for inspection. Also 230 boxes packed full.
Many First Editions and Early Printings by noted theologians & authors including: John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Alexander Campbell, George Whitefield, John Calvin, Roger Williams, Lorenzo Dow, A. J. Gordon, Sam Jones, D. L. Moody, Jacob Catlin, Jonathan Edwards, William Gladstone, Robert Lewis Dabney, J. William Jones, William Styron and Archibald Rutledge.
[Whitefield, George] [18th century American Imprints] A collection of twenty seven rare pamphlets mostly opposed to the preaching of George Whitefield printed during the great pamphlet wars occasioned by the Great Awakening in New England, 1740-1745.
Good books and ephemera on African-American / Black history & dialect, Alcoholics Anonymous, American history, Church history, Bibles & Translations, Books about Books & Book Collecting, Concordances, Juvenile, Lexicons, Literature, Native-Americans, Natural history, Nautical / Naval history, Philosophy, Reference, Religious Biography, Sermons, Theology, Travel, Virginia history, Western Americana, and World history.
Five four-drawer file cabinets filled with uncounted thousands of papers & pamphlets of research material collected over fifty years; incl ...
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