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Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1759. Second Baskerville quarto edition, title page of Paradise Regain'd in first, canceled, state, with "PSON" erased and "SON" overprinted. [8], lxix: title, half-title, In Paradisum Amissam by Samuel Barrow, and On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvel, Life of Milton], 416 pp.; 390, [2] pp., half-titles for SA, Poems, Poemata. 2 vols. Small 4to. Contemporary speckled calf with gilt spine, raised bands, spine titles. Some rubbing to hinges, some foxing, but very nice. Second Baskerville quarto edition, title page of Paradise Regain'd in first, canceled, state, with "PSON" erased and "SON" overprinted. [8], lxix: title, half-title, In Paradisum Amissam by Samuel Barrow, and On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvel, Life of Milton], 416 pp.; 390, [2] pp., half-titles for SA, Poems, Poemata. 2 vols. Small 4to. "Largest paper edition of Baskerville's Milton," (Howe's, Cat. 240, #188, 1988). The best obtainable…

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.