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Creator:: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Title:: The mask of Comus : the poem, originally called 'A mask presented at Ludlow castle, 1634, &c.' / edited by E.H. Visiak ; the airs of the five songs reprinted from the composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss ; with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere ; ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar.
Alternate Title(s):: Comus.
Published / Created:: London : Published by the Nonesuch press, 1937.
Physical Description:: xxiv, 44, [2] pages : color illustrations, music ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: At head of title: John Milton [and] Henry Lawes.
Subject Terms:: Masques with music -- Librettos. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Music.
Form/Genre:: Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Linocuts -- Hand-colored -- 1937.
Contributors:: Nonesuch Press, publisher. | Curwen Press, printer. | Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., binder. | Visiak, E. H. (Edward Harold), editor. | Foss, Hubert J. (Hubert James), 1899–1953, editor. | Farrar, M. R. H., illustrator. | Lawes, Henry, 1596–1662, author. | Ellesmere, John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Earl of, 1872–1944, writer of foreword.