Books

Bently and Tonson, 1691. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson,1691. Fifth edition. Missing all plates except the frontispiece. Some tears on pages throughout. Small pieces missing on corner of some pages. Small cut-out at middle of page on right side from p.175 for four pages. Paper tape on front and rear inside hinges. Book plate attached to front paste-down. Handwritten inscription on front free end paper. Some water damage along bottom and sides of pages starting at about p. 175 towards rear of book. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

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.