London: Printed for J. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Baldwin ... [et al.], 1801.
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Hardcover. Large paper edition. Six volume set. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Milton (volume one) and an engraved plate of Christina, Queen of Sweden in men's apparel (volume six). The front joint of volume one has been professionally repaired, scattered rubbing to the joints and edges, a few gently bumped corners, very good or better. A handsome set bound by Riviere & Son in dark blue half morocco, gilt spines, marbled endpapers. From the library of Caresse and Harry Crosby, with their coat of arms stamped in gilt on the front boards and small leather gilt-stamped bookplates: with the names Harry and Caresse forming the cross. American expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s, Harry and Caresse founded the Black Sun Press, an important English language press noted for publishing many of the key figures of modernism (including the first edition of Hart Crane’s *The Bridge*). Their set of Milton's *Works* also features the device of the press, a small symbol of the sun, blind-stamped on one or two of the blank fly leaves at the front of each volume.
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