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Octavo. 2 volumes. 8vo. Preface [3], [1], list of subscribers [18], half-title, [5], lxix, 416; 390. Early 20th century full morocco with gilt floral pattern borders to front and rear boards, six compartments and five raised bands, gilt tooling on bands and gilt decorated compartments with gilt stamped lettering to compartments two and three. Gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Small bookplate of Abel E. Berland to pastedown endpaper in volume 1 only. Small red stamp of a bird to the bottom fore-edge corner of each title page, very faint in the second volume. The h in 'God his light' rubbed out by hand on page 75 line 3. Light rubbing to the leather around the spine ends and a few very light scuffs but overall a very clean and tight set.

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.