[Rarebooks] FS: Nonesuch Press Milton: THE MASK OF COMUS, copy 444 of 950 with music by Henry Lawes, price reduced

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Price reduced:    Was $150    Now  $100:

(NONESUCH PRESS) MILTON,John and LAWES, Henry. THE MASK OF COMUS. 
London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Tall folio (10" x 15") bound in 
blindstamped parchment with overlapping fore-edges. Frontispiece, 
title-page vignette, and 5 color plates by M. R. H. Farrar printed from 
the artist's linoleum-cuts by the Curwen Press. The text of Milton's 
poem is here based on the manuscript stage copy as first presented, 
together with the music composed by Lawes from his manuscript copy. Copy 
#444 of 950 copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper, printed at the 
University Press, Oxford. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with uneven 
sunning.         $100.00

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