Books

London: Flesher, Tonson, 1688. 4th edition. hardcover. Very good. The 4th edition, the first illustrated edition, the large paper copy (15 inches tall), rebound in leather and with the edges of the frontispiece repaired. Published in London in 1688, by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson. Engraved Frontispiece with an additional 12 full page engravings, all engravings present.

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.