Description: Description The Masque of Comus: The Poem by John Milton, & The Airs by Henry Lawes Prefaces by Mark Van Doren and Hubert Foss. Illustrated with color plates after watercolors by Edmund Dulac. 10½x7¼, half vellum & marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 321 of 1500 copies printed on handmade paper by Brooke Crutchley, printer of the University, Cambridge, England. Includes some of Dulac's last illustrations. A handsome book. Condition Rubbing and minor wear to slipcase; bookplate, a few finger and fox marks; near fine in better than very good slipcase. About this book Comus (A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honor of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Known colloquially as Comus, the masque's actual full title is A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michelmas night, before the Rt Hon. Iohn Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Maiesties most honorable privie councill. Comus was printed anonymously in 1637, in a quarto issued by bookseller Humphrey Robinson; Milton included the work in his Poems of 1645 and 1673. Milton's text was later used for a highly successful masque by the musician Thomas Arne in 1738, which then ran for more than seventy years in London. John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written. (Wikipedia)
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Year Printed: 1954
Topic: Poetry
Binding: Half vellum & marbled boards
Illustrator: Edmund Dulac
Author: John Milton
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Special Attributes: Book Club Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition
