Product Description
With decorated endpapers, frontispiece with protective fly-leaf, decorated title, plates, vignettes & illustrations after A.
Garth Jones.
Top edge gilt.
Deckle-edged.
A few pages unopened.
Slight foxing to some pages.
Spine somewhat faded.
Head & foot spine somewhat worn.
Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners.
An attractive copy.
; Handsome Endymion Series edition of Miltonâs shorter verse, printed at the Chiswick Press and lavishly illustrated and decorated throughout in an austere Art Nouveau idiom by Alfred Garth Jones.
Issued by George Bell & Sons in 1898, this âbook beautifulâ aligns trade publishing with private-press ideals, uniting pictorial title-page, vignettes, borders and initials into a single, carefully balanced page design.
Jones (1872â"1955) was one of the most accomplished late-Victorian black-and-white artists, designing important bindings and illustrations for authors from Milton and Tennyson to Conan Doyle; his work on The Minor Poems has been singled out by historians of book design as a leading example of English Art Nouveau cover and page decoration.
A key volume for collectors of Milton, of fin-de-sià cle illustration and of the Bell âEndymion Series, â now increasingly elusive in unrestored decorative cloth.
; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 206 pages Original elaborate art-nouveau decorated gilt blindstamped cloth
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