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and text illustrations, 2 vol., red mor. (a trifle rubbed), g.t., 1899, 8vo. (115), Nov. 3, Sotheby Suckling, £1 12S. Millais (Sir John Guille). A Breath from the Veldt, plates, hf. cf., g.t., 1895, 4to. (582), Jan. 26, Dowell £4 12s. 6d. [See also Sotheby, Nov. 10, £6 15s.; Hodgson, Feb. 11, £5; Nov. 12, ed. 1899, £1 16s.]

£2 8s.

Millais (J. G.) British Deer and their Horns, plates, hf. cf., g.t., 1897, 4to. (583), Jan. 26, Dowell Millais (J. G.) Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, col. plates, hf. mor., g.t., 1892, folio (613), April 20, Sotheby

Shifton, £4 Millais (J. G.) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, col. plates, etc., 3 vol., orig. cl., g.t., 1904-6, 4to. (698), Feb. 2, Sotheby Quarilch, £9 5s. [See also Mar. 2, £9; Kemp, June 12, £8 18s. 6d.] Miller (John). An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus, plates in 2 states, plain and col. (4 plates at end col. only), russ. (rebacked), 1777, large folio (689), July 29, Sotheby Stow, £9 5s.

See also Dec. 15, £4 10s.] Miller (Philip). Figures of Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary, 300 col. plates, 2 vol., old cf. gt., g.e. (joints cracked), 1771 (922), April 22, Hodgson Wheldon, £1 16s. Miller (P.) The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary, by T. Martyn, plates, extra illus. with numerous fine col. plates of rare plants by E. Edwards, 2 vol. in 4, hf. russ. gt., 1807, folio (600), Feb. 11, Hodgson Cork, £4 2s. 6d. Milles (Thomas). The Catalogve of Honor, engraved title by Elstracke, and coats-of-arms, p. 493 intact, panelled red mor. gt., inside borders, g.e., by Pratt, fine copy, W. Jaggard, 1610, folio (222), May 25, Sotheby

Halliday, £4 IOS. Millot. Tableaux de l'Histoire Romaine, 48 plates after Gravelot and St. Aubin, in 2 states, one of the few copies printed on large vellum paper, hf. red mor., Paris, 1796, folio (688), May 25, Sotheby Fellows, £2 15S.

Mills (John). The Life of a Foxhound, first ed., port. and
plates, polished cf. gt., g.e., by Rivière, 1848, 8vo. (34),
July 27, Sotheby
Potter, £3 5s.

[See also June 29, £1 14s.] Milman (Henry Hart). The History of the Jews, third ed., thoroughly revised and extended, 3 vol.--History of Latın Christianity, third ed., 9 vol.-The History of Christianity, a new and revised ed., 3 vol.--Savonarola, Erasmus, and other Essays, reprinted from the Quarterly Review, fine set of the Library Ed. of each work, together 16 vol., uniformly bound in three-quarter dark blue levant mor., gt. fillets on sides, gt. panelled backs, g.t., uncut, London, John Murray, 1863-70 (1024), Mar. 30, American Art Association $34 Milne (Alan Alexander). When We Were Very Young, first ed., decorations by E. H. Shepherd, handmade paper ed.,

limited to 100 copies, signed by Author and Artist, boards, buckram back, uncut, 1924, sm. 4to. (407), July 23, Hodgson

Spurr, £21

[See also July 1, ₤17 10s.; American Art Association, May 4, $22.j Milton (John). Joannis Milton Angli Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio, Contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii Defensionem Regiam, arms on title, vell., with clasps, Londini, Typis Du-Guardianis, 1651, 12mo. (381), Dec. 16, Anderson Galleries $3.50

[It was the writing of this work that finally cost Milton his eyesight. In 1660 this work was ordered to be burned by the common hangman. See also Dec. 16, first trans. into English, 1692, $6.] Milton (J.) Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England, first ed., cf.. London, printed in the Yeare 1644, sm. 4to. (413), April 6, Sotheby Spurr, £19

[See also Hodgson, Mar. 26, ed. 1903, on vell., £15; Mar. 26, ed. 1907, £3 3s.; Mar. 26, on vell., £19; April 1, £3 12s. 6d.; American Art Association, Feb. 5, $60.] Milton (J.) Comus, a Masque, woodcut front. by R. Savage, initials in gold and red, only 150 copies printed all on vellum, parchment boards, 1901 (232), Feb. 11, Hodgson [See also Lot 256, ed. 1914, £I IOS.] Bolt, 3 IOS. Milton] (J.) The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, 3 lines of errata on last page (some head-lines and sigs. cropped), 1645-Colasterion : a Reply to a Nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, first ed., title slightly defective, 1645-Griffith (J.) The Unlawfulnesse of Mixt-Marriages, 1681-Denn (J.) The Lawfulnes of Mixt-Marriages Weighed, head-lines cropped, 1681, in 1 vol., ht. cf., sm. 4to. (412), Mar. 23, Sotheby Keiller, £5 [Milton (J.)] Eikonoklastes, in Answer to a Book entitled "Eikon Basilike," the Portraiture of his sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings, printed by authority, the author I. M., first ed., full polished sprinkled cr. with panels of fawn cf. inlaid, gt., gt back (blind stamp on title), London, printed by Matthew Simmons, 1649, sm. 4to. (496). May 7, American Art Association $57.50

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 15, £4 10s.] Milton (J.) The History of Britain, first ed., port., with the Errata leaf, old cf., 1670, sm. 4to. (449), May 25, Sotheby Arthur, £2 12s. 6d. [See also Mar. 17, £2 5s.; July 20, £3; American Art Association, April 23, $52.30; Christie, June 15, ed. 1671, £4 5s.; Sotheby, June 29, £I IOS.] Milton (J.) Minor Poems, illustrations by A. G. Jones, one of 100 copies on Japanese vellum, vell. ex., silk linings, t.e.g., 1898, 8vo. (400), Dec. 10, Hodgson Heffer, £1 19s. Milton (J.) Ode on the Morning of Christ's

Nativity, 200

copies, No. 84, Daniel Press, 1894, 4to. (181), July 6, Sotheby Ingleby, 1 16s. Milton (J.) Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, first ed., one sheet, with sig. A and folded to form 8 pp., unbound (size 613in. by 5 in.), [Published by Thomas Underhill, 5 June, 1644], sm. 4to. (430), Feb. 23, Sotheby

Quaritch, £90 [Only about 8 copies appear to be known. See also Mar. 30, mor., £205.] [Milton (J.)] Of Reformation touching Chvrch-Discipline in England and the Cavses that hitherto have hindred it. Two Bookes, written to a Freind [sic], first ed., type ornaments on title, head-pieces, ornamental initial, including the leaf of Errata (A 2), full seal-brown levant mor., gt. and blind tooled, g.e., by Rivière, clean copy, in fine condition, [London] Printed for Thomas Underhill, 1641, sm. 4to. (313), Dec. 4, American Art Association $90 [See also Sotheby, April 6, £7 10s.]

Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem written in Ten Books by John Milton, Licensed and Entred according to Order, first ed., old signatures on fly-leaf, orig. sheep, London, printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 1667, sm. 4to. (278), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries $5,600

This

It is

[First title-page, with the author's name John Milton in large capitals. A fine large copy, measuring 7in. by 5in. First issue, having the earliest version of the quire L, before any corrections had been made. The WyattLefferts-Winans-Whistler copy, with the signature of Sir M. Digby Wyatt on the fly-leaf, and with the Lefferts bookplate. Sir M. Digby Wyatt has an interesting pencil note, dated Sept. 6th, 1857, in which he says: edition is the first and has the first titlepage worth nearly £10 and is a book rising in value in is a letter from Bernard Quaritch to Mr. Chew, in which Mr. Quaritch says, "It is probably the finest copy of the book now in existence, certainly the finest which I have seen." See also Jan. 12, second title-page, $700; Sotheby, Nov. 10, ed. 1668, £39; Nov. 24, def., £2 2s.; May 25, £9; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 8, $325; American Art Association, Jan. 20, $175; April 14, $200; Dec. 4, $140; Hodgson, Feb. II, £10 IOS.]

Laid

Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, first ed., sixth title-page, with the reprinted preliminary ll., in which the "Printer to the Reader" is omitted, full maroon mor., g.e., by Rivière, a fine copy, London, printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder, at the Angel in Little Brittain, 1669, sm. 4to. (344), April 23, American Art Association $130

[See also Sotheby, Feb. 2, £3; Nov. 24, £9 10s.; Hodg

son, July 9, £7 5s.; Sotheby, May 4, ed. 1674, £4; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 16, ed. 1678, $7.50; Hodgson, Dec. 10, ed. 1688, £1 IS.; Sotheby, Nov. 3, ed. 1792, in Eng. and French, £15 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, ed. 1902, $15; Hodgson, Nov. 12, ed. 1906, £1 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 16, $6; Dowell, Jan. 26, £1 12S.; Hodgson, Mar. 26, ed. 1827, £3.]

Milton (J.) Paradise Regain'd, a Poem, in IV. Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes, first ed., name cut from margin of title, Errata corrected in ink, and contemporary MS. additions on p. 89 of Samson Agonistes, orig. cf., London, printed by J. M. for J. Starkey, 1671, 8vo. (684b), July 29, Sotheby Dobell, £7 1OS.

[See also June 29, £10 15s.; Nov. 10, £10 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, $85; Puttick, Mar. 25, £16; Hodgson, Oct. 15, £9 10s.; American Art Association, April 23, $100; Dec. 4, $140; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 16, ed. 1680, $2.50; Sotheby, May 25, ed. 1781, £5.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, 2 vol., 1754-[and] Paradise Regained, 1752, edited with Notes by T. Newton, ports. and fine plates by Hayman, 3 vol., with the Historical and Miscellaneous Works, port., 2 vol., 1753, together 5 vol., uniform straight-grain crimson mor. ex., the sides decorated with an elaborate design, gt. and blind tooled, with gt. backs and inner borders, g.e., a very handsome set in sound condition, 4to. (12), June 25, Hodgson

Edwards, £17 Milton (J.) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., crimson cf., gt. arms on sides, Birmingham, Baskerville Press, 1758, 8vo. (419), Nov. 5, Hodgson Heffer, £4 158.

[See also Christie, July 29, £2 165.; Sotheby, July 29, ed. 1760, £2 12s. 6d.; Hodgson; Dec. 10, rebacked, £1 13s. ; American Art Association, Jan. 20, ed. 1795, fore-edge painting, $235.]

Milton (J.) Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, compos'd at several times. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes, first ed., with the engraved port. of Milton by William Marshall (re-margined), crushed crimson levant inor., gt. back, gt. panelled sides, g.e., by Bedford, a few paginations have been trimmed close and there are a few slight repairs to the title-page affecting a few letters, London, printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, 1645, sm. 8vo. (630), Nov. 10, Anderson Galleries $1,450

[This is the first published work of Milton to bear his name in full. Tennyson's copy, with his autograph on the fly-leaf written in his early small hand. With the jester bookplate of Frederick Locker. See also Sotheby, Feb. 2, impft., £9 5s.; July 29, 190; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 8, $950; American Art Association, Dec. 4, ed. 1673, $75; Sotheby, Mar. 23, unopened, £75; Oct. 27, £4 15s. ; Nov. 24, £2.]

Milton (J.) Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, compos'd at several times, printed by his true copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes, Gentleman of the Kings Chappel, and one of His Maiesties Private Musick. Printed and publish'd according to Order, with engraved port. of Milton by Marshall (the earliest published port. of the poet), London, printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the signe of the Princes Arms in Pauis Churchyard, 1645-A Mask of the same Author presented at Ludlow-Castie, 1634, before the Earl of Bridgewater, then President of Waies, Anno Dom. 1645-Joannis Milton Londinensis Poemata. Quorum pleraque intro Annum ætatis Vigesimum Conscripsit. Nunc primum Edita. Londini, Typis R. R. Prostant ad Insignia Principis in Cameterio D. Pauli, apud Humphredum Moseley, 1645, first collected ed., in I vol., brown mor., g.e. on the rough, by Rivière, sm. 8vo. (276), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries $950 Milton (J.) Reason of Church-government Urg'd against Prelaty, first ed., 1641-Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnus, first ed., 1641 -An Apology against a Pamphlet call'd A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions, first ed., 1642--and many others, in 2 vol., hf. cí., stained and cropped, 4to. (429), Feb. 23, Sotheby Halliday, £35 [Milton (J.)] A Reply to the Answer (Printed by his Majesties Command at Oxford) to a Printed Booke intituled Observations upon some of his Maiesties late Answers and Expresses, by J. M., first ed., title within typeornament border and with ornament above imprint, new three-quarter midnight blue levant mor., gt. back, old red sprinkled edges, London, printed for Matthew Walbanck, Anno Dom. 1642, 4to. (612), Nov. 24, American Art Association $37.50 Milton (J.) Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure chief places in Scripture which treat of Mariage, or nullities of Mariage, first ed., title rule and a few head-lines and catchwords cut into, 1645--The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, second ed., a few head-lines cut into, 1644, both unbound, sm. 4to. (899), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Halliday, £2 5s. [Milton (J.)] A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, shewing that it is not lawful for any power on earth to compell in matters of Religion, the author J. M., first ed., full dark blue levant mor. gt, gt. tooled back and inside borders, g.e., by The Club Bindery, London, for Tho. Newcomb, 1659, sm. 8vo. (358), May 4, American Art Association

$51

Milton (J.) Poetical Works, by Newton, 2 vol., cf., Birmingham, Baskerville Press, 1758 (415), Jan. 14, Hodgson McLeish, £1 15S

[See also Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, ed. 1794, $35; Dec

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