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Octavo, Two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in half contemporary leather and marbled paper boards with gilt lettering on paneled spine. Cracking to leather on spines. Rubbing to boards and leather on corners. Small chunk of head of spine and braided headband missing from Volume I. Bookplate to front pastedown in both volumes. Age toning and light, scattered foxing throughout interior pages. Bookplates of J.E.H. Graham-Clarke on front pastedowns, and signature of Arabella Graham-Clarke on title page of both volumes. Handwritten notes from Arabella Graham-Clarke present between pages 2-43 in Volume I. Shelved in Case 0. Arabella Graham-Clarke was the aunt of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a well-known English poet of the Victorian era. Originally issued in one volume, this copy was bound in two volumes to make space for interleaving. All volumes paginated continuously as issued, with the addition of one blank leaf per printed leaf for note-taking. Wickenheiser 691. 1373988. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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.

The first edition of 'Paradise Lost' was published in 1667, and it consists of a small quarto volume which contains ten books in total.