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Birmingham; London: John Baskerville; J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Leather. Near Fine. 10" by 6.5". None. A beautiful Baskerville edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regain'd', both epic poems bound here in one volume. A Baskerville edition.Complete as two volumes bound in one.ESTC citation number T134228 and N11290 - 'Paradise Regain'd' with 'Life of Milton' paginated in Roman numerals.List of subscribers to the front of 'Paradise Lost'. Pages 69, 231, 235, 262, and 330 misnumbered 96, 131, 135, 268, and 230.Bound by BookEnds.Collated, complete.Both of John Milton's epic poems bound in one volume, 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regain'd'.'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, concerning the biblical Fall of Man, with the temptation of Adam and Even, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The poem is considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.The sequel, 'Paradise Regain'd', is likewise a blank verse poem, though is…

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.