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4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 12 p.l., lxxxvi, [26], 510; 463, [183]index, [1]ads; 4 p.l., 335; 4 p.l., 386, [3]index. 2 engraved frontis. portraits of Milton by G.Vertue & 17 engraved plates by J.S.M�ller & C.Grignion after Francis Hayman. contemporary calf (Vol. I joints cracked & spine ends chipped Vol. II with short split in upper front joint, some foxing & browning throughout Vols. I-II, Vols. III-IV joints cracked). Sixth Edition, With Notes of various Authors, By Thomas Newton, D.D.

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.