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4to. 22 x 16.5 cm. [8], lxxii, [1]-416 pp; [1]-4, [2] pp contents, [5]-390 pp. Green morocco rebacked with brown, gilt decoration and edges. Very Good with wear to extremities. Mild foxing to leaves. Title page of second volume in first state with faint erasure to Samson. The second Baskerville edition from the text of Thomas Newton.

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.