Books

Birmingham/London: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1760. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed by John Baskerville, Birmingham. A two volume set. 416 and 390 pages. Bound in full calf with gilt borders to the covers, and gilt decorations between the six raised bands. All edges and endpapers marbled. Bookplates of Juliet Foord-Bowe with harold on front paste-down endpaper. Light foxing on initial and final pages. Interior hinges professionally reinforced. Exterior hinges and head of spine professionally repaired. Corners worn. Printed title labels on volume 2 absent. About very good copies.

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.