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London, printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand and Jacob Tonson et al.,1732.. 2 VOLUMES, MIXED SET, 1720 and 1732. 4to, approximately 295 x 230 mm, 11½ x 9 inches. PARADISE LOST, 1732, new edition by RICHARD BENTLEY, 2 full page engraved portraits of John Milton, 1 as frontispiece, pages: [20], 1-399, [1], plus16 pages of index, last page blank, complete with half-title. Some scuffing to original covers, tips of corners professionally repaired, 1 gilt letter to title rubbed away, top margin of title page slightly trimmed, small pale stain to 1 outer margin and 2 others have small patch of pale foxing, old ink inscriptions to top of first free endpaper, 2 bookplates to first pastedown, (Christopher Montagu), otherwise a very good clean tight copy. POETICAL WORKS, including PARADISE REGAIN'D, engraved portrait of John Milton as frontispiece, engraved vignette to title page, 6 engraved headpieces, 5 engraved tailpieces and 6 engraved pictorial initials, pages: [6],…

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.