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London: printed for Jacob Tonson; and for John Poulson; and for J. Darby [et al.], 1732. First Bentley edition, 4to, pp. [20], 399, [1], [16] index; 2 engraved portraits by Vertue, full contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; upper joint a little cracked, several minor imperfections, but on the whole a nice copy with the half-title. Contained in a new cloth clamshell box. Lowndes II, 1559; Ebert 14075.

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.