The Complete Poems of John Milton (The Harvard Classics)

A hardcover Collector's Edition in fine condition. Richly decorated brown leatherette boards with gilt diamond lattice pattern, ornamental corner and centre pieces, and raised bands to the spine with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge to the text block. Pages are clean throughout. The Complete Poems of John Milton. The Harvard Classics, Collector's Edition. Grolier Enterprises Corp., Danbury, Connecticut, 1980. Edited with introductions and notes by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., who served as president of Harvard University for forty years and compiled the celebrated fifty-volume Harvard Classics, with the conviction that careful reading of the series could provide a liberal education to anyone.