Books

Includes engraved portrait of Milton. First Bentley Edition. Gilt lines around perimeter of front and back cover, with leather corners. Raised bands along spine wit a gilt design within each compartment. Brown leather label. Dark strip along where the cover meets the spine. Imprinted design on front and back cover. Design on the edge of the covers. Pages are dyed red (spotted). Interior of front and back cover is slightly stained.

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.