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MILTON, John

The Masque of Comus and The Airs by Henry Lawes

First edition thus. Small quarto. Illustrated after watercolors by Edmund Dulac. Prefaces by Mark Van Doren and Hubert Foss. Fine in quarter vellum and marbled-paper covered boards with original acetate dustwrapper with small tear along spine and chip to rear in fine slipcase. One of 1500 copies; this #501. The final work of Dulac, who died before it was completed, and thus didn't sign the edition. Shown without dustwrapper and slipcase.

[BTC #314207]

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