His literary works, which include a translation of Aristophanes and an edition of John Philip's poem Cyder, were generally adorned with detailed notes - and this scholarly edition of Milton's Paradise Regained proves no exception. Harward's Circulating Library, Colonnade Buildings, Cheltenham to FEP, inscribed 'Presented to me by the Editor, C.D.' Charles Dunster (1750-1816), Anglican clergyman. With attractive contemporary bookplate of S. A little marginal worming to preliminaries. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine copy. Uncut in recent half calf over marbled boards, contrasting title label, gilt. With large folding map of the Mediterranean and Middle East as frontispiece. These complexities notwithstanding, a scarce and delightful pair in well-nigh original period binding.įirst Dunster Edition. II was 'bound with his Paradise Regained, 1817' but lists no printings in 1819.

Volume II would appear to be a later issue of Stevens 264 (who records the first edition thus as 1817 despite the dating on the engraved title). Volume I appears to be unrecorded by Stevens, falling as it does between Sharpe's first edition of 1809 and his quite distinct two-volume edition of 1827. The two volumes were clearly published as a set (vide the publisher's labels) but we can find no clear record of them as such. In the second volume the pagination is continuous (including the Index).Something of a bibliographical puzzle here. In the first volume, the plates stand before Paradise Lost (Finden), Samson Agonistes (Romney) and Comus (Heath) in the second, the plates stand before Lycidas (Engleheart), L'Allegro (Heath), Il Penseroso (Mitan), Sonnets (Heath) and Odes (Finden).In the first volume Paradise Regained is paginated by line number only the other works (including Arcades) are all separately paginated. The fine engraved and captioned plates are also after Westall and dated 1816. The engraved titles, all after Westall and dated 1816, are by Engleheart (Vol.

2 vols., 12mo., with fine engraved and printed titles, and a total of 8 engraved plates after Westall (most original tissue guards present), some minimal offsetting from plates ORIGINAL BOARDS, very neatly rebacked to style, ORIGINAL PRINTED PAPER LABELS PRESERVED (labels chipped and worn but virtually all lettering entirely legible), uncut, boards mildly age-stained with a few old tape marks, else a most attractive and remarkably clean, crisp set in tastefully restored publisher's binding.

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