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To Which is Added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions. From the Text of Thomas Newton. 2 vols. 4to, full polished deep blue morocco, gilt-ruled; elaborately gilt spines; a.e.g. Second quarto edition. Gaskell 6 & 7; with the corrected state of "Samson.". Some slight rubbing along the joints; but a beautiful set, very handsomely bound.

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.