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BOUND BY STOAKLEY

MILTON, [John]. Milton's paradise lost.

London. Printed T. Bensley, 1802. New edition.
8vo. In two volumes. [4], 264; [2], 250pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I and a further 12 engraved plates. Finely bound by Stoakley in early twentieth-century gilt-tooled half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle dulled. Very occasional early inked annotations, scattered spotting.
Following the death renowned Cambridge binder John Bird Hawes (1820-1885), his erstwhile forwarder George Frederick Stoakley (1835-1911), acquired the craftsman's workshop at 30 Green Street. The firm specialised in academic bindings for scholars at the university and continued in business until the 1920s by his various sons.
£ 625.00 Antiquates Ref: 30201