Books

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1800. Leather-bound. Leather-bound. D: 3" W: 13 1/4" H: 17 1/4" 1 Volume. John Milton, Paradise Lost. Bound in full green morocco with the covers and raised band spines displaying gilt and open-tooled detailing. All edges are gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Gustave Doré with notes and a Life of Milton by Robert Vaughan. Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin in London, circa 1800s.

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.