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London, Paris, New York, & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1905. 340 x 257 mm. (13 3/8 x 10 1/3"). 3 p.l., lxii, [2], 329, [1] pp. APPEALING CONTEMPORARY BURGUNDY MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID IN THE ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE, covers with a wide frame of undulating gilt vines bearing flowers and berries of onlaid green morocco (the flowers with a total 220 separately onlaid petals), upper cover with gilt lettering at head and foot of central panel, raised bands, spine compartments with central onlaid green flower surrounded by a swirl of gilt leaves, gilt titling, turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets and with a spray of three leaves at the corners, all edges gilt (hinges reinforced with linen, very expert repairs perhaps performed at top of joints). WITH 50 DRAMATIC BLACK & WHITE PLATES depicting scenes from the poem, after engravings by Doré. ◆Front joint somewhat rubbed (but nothing cracked or loose), corners gently bumped, a hint of soiling to boards, free endpapers with offsetting…

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.