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London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper & W. Strajan, J.F. and C. Rivington, B.White, T. Caslon et al., 1777. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 3 Vols. Literature. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Vol. II with extensive, unpaginated Index and Errata. Paradise Regain'd with two page Index. List of Subscribers in Vol. I. with Preface. The Life of Milton and a Critique upon the Paradise Lost by Mr. Addison preceding the Subscribers list headed by His and Her Royal Highness -- Prince and Princess of Wales. Edited by Bishop Thomas Newton and dedicated to the Earl of Bath. With 20 stipple engraved plates most after Francis Hayman, including 3 frontispiece portraits of Milton by diverse hands. Paradise Regain'd with Preface followed by two page Table of Contents. Last pages in latin -- Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata. Quorum pleraque intra Annum AEtatis Vigesimum Conseripsit. Offsetting of frontispiece to title in all three volumes. All images sharp and clean with some slight…

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.