Frontispiece for Milton’s ‘Minor Poems’
Alfred Garth Jones
1898
Wood engraving
9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches each page
John Milton, Minor Poems, title page and pictorial frontispiece.
An elegant opener in which the artist combines figure drawing with a decorative arboreal border. The trees are stylized in the elongated and simplified manner of ‘Glasgow Style’ Art Nouveau.