Books

London: S. Simmons, 1678. Third. hardcover. fine. Engraved frontispiece portrait by William Dolle. 336 pages; new front and back flyleaves. 8vo, rebound in half tan morocco with leather spine label, over marbled boards, all edges gilt. London: S. Simmons. 1678. Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author. Contents clean, upper margins trimmed, coming close to some headlines; miniscule gift inscription 1898. A good looking copy of one of the greatest epic poems in the English language.

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.