Books

London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. original two-color buckram, front cover illustrated and lettered in black, gilt spine. folio. original two-color buckram, front cover illustrated and lettered in black, gilt spine. 28 pages (including prelims, the arguments for each section of Paradise Lost, and captions opposite the plates). The first edition, beautifully printed in an edition of 150 numbered copies. Foxing throughout, however the plates are not effected. Light fraying to the top hinge of the front cover along the spine. Very light shelfwear. Very light toning to the boards. Etched portrait of Milton as well as additional title page, with 10 plates by and after William Strang tipped into window mounts. A splendid visual interpretation of the epic life of Adam & Eve as written by Milton. The plates are on paper, mounted & enclosed in cardboard mats. Provenance: with the bookplate of Laurence W. Hodson (1864-1933) at the bottom of the front pastedown. Hodson was a founder of Birmingham…

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.