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Imperial octavo. With 24 mezzotint plates by John Martin. 26.5x17.6 cm (10�x7"), bound by P. Low , Boston in full morocco, decoratively ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, gilt dentelles. Binding restored.OCLC Number 973596732; Balston, Appendix 9, no. 4 (for first edition); Wees, III.

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.