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2 VOLUMES, MIXED SET, 1720 and 1732. 4to, approximately 295 x 230 mm, 11� x 9 inches. PARADISE LOST, 1732, new edition by RICHARD BENTLEY, 2 full page engraved portraits of John Milton, 1 as frontispiece, pages: [20], 1-399, [1], plus16 pages of index, last page blank, complete with half-title. Some scuffing to original covers, tips of corners professionally repaired, 1 gilt letter to title rubbed away, top margin of title page slightly trimmed, small pale stain to 1 outer margin and 2 others have small patch of pale foxing, old ink inscriptions to top of first free endpaper, 2 bookplates to first pastedown, (Christopher Montagu), otherwise a very good clean tight copy. POETICAL WORKS, including PARADISE REGAIN'D, engraved portrait of John Milton as frontispiece, engraved vignette to title page, 6 engraved headpieces, 5 engraved tailpieces and 6 engraved pictorial initials, pages: [6], [1]-527. The name Samson on page R3 has been ruled through in old ink and the name Manoa inked in beside in small letters, 1 page has 2 small holes affecting 2 letters only, 2 bookplates to first pastedown, (Christopher Montagu). Uniformly bound in contemporary polished calf covers with new spines, gilt lettered title label to spine, gilt rules and decoration to spine, new endpapers, speckled edges. Slight scuffing to original covers, tips of corners professionally repaired, otherwise both volumes in very good condition. See: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, compiled by K. A. Coleridge, page 142, No 103, and pages 275-276. HEAVY BOOKS WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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.