Quarto. [64]pp. With 30 engraved plates. Handsomely bound by Cuff brothers of Preston in contemporary dark green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, gilt, dentelles, binder's ticket to FEP, fosed.

A handsomely bound edition containing Milton's famous pastoral duet, L'allegro and Il Penseroso. Probably composed shortly after Milton's time at Cambridge, the titles of the poems translate to "The Happy Man" and "The Melancholy Man" respectively.