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Contemporary calf, 6 raised bands, gilt ruling and edge decoration, gilt decoration in compartments on the spine. Cover shows moderate wear and rubbing, erosion and edgewear. Contemporary marbled endappers. A few minor smudges to the pages. With frontis portrait engraving.

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.