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A masterpiece by The Doves Press and a great example of contemporary typography and book design. Very attractive copies of 300 each printed on paper from a total edition of 322 copies (22 on vellum each). Description: Two volumes. Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp. 386, [1]. 343, [1]. Printed in black, red and blue on Doves handmade paper, top edge cut, fore and lower edges trimmed. Inner pastedown stamped 'The Doves Bindery'. Provenance: From the collection of Max Morgenstern(1883-1946), sold by his heirs in 2016. ¶ Ref.: Cobden-Sanderson 1922, 136-37; Tidcombe DP5, DP7 Condition: The binding next to few, natural irregularities in the grain of the vellum, very good. No browning to endpapers. Internally with occasional spotting to margins of a few leaves, but otherwise very fine copies. Notes: 'Paradise Lost' was the first major undertaking of the Press, larger than the first four books put together, and the Press's reputation would rest…

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.