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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Milton's monumental work of English literature is here letterpress printed on wove paper specially made by the Zerkall mill in Germany for this edition, which pays typographic tribute to two earlier editions of Milton's epic poem—the second edition of 1674 and the second Baskerville edition of 1759—with this 2002 limited edition featuring a new modernized text edited by Miltonist John T. Shawcross accompanied by a substantial essay introducing the poem by Helen Vendler of Harvard, in an edition limited to 400 numbered and 26 lettered copies, this being number 123. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution, this being number 123. 10 3/8" X 7 1/2". xxxiv, 396pp. Bound in full black linen over boards, with inset purple leather labels lettered in gilt to both spine of book and edge of matching slipcase, itself stamped…

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.