Milton, John [1608 - 1674] - Subject. Sampson, Alden [1853 - 1925]. Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore [1832 - 1914] - Former Owner — MILTON'S SONNETS

New York: The De Vinne Press, 1886. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Sampson to Theodore Watts, dated 1887. Original publisher's quarter-vellum over grey paper wrapped boards; title stamped in blind to front board. Printed paper title label to spine. TEG. 72 pp. Errata leaf tipped-in after p. 72. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8". Wear & soiling to binding, with slight splay to boards. Terminal flyleaf with short closed tear to bottom edge. Booklabel of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton. About Very Good. Publication of "a paper read before the Association of Haverford Alumni, in Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, on the Evening of the Twenty-First of June, 1886, by Alden Sampson, A. M. (Haverford and Harvard)." "Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism." [Wiki].