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London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes; J. Hodges; J. and R. Tonson; et al, 1753-57. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. An early set of John Milton's important epic poems, an illustrated set edited by biblical scholar Thomas Newton. ESTC citation numbers T132846 and T134240.The fourth Newton edition of 'Paradise Lost', and the second Newton edition of 'Paradise Regain'd'.With a comma after 'edition' to the title page of Volume II of 'Paradise Regain'd'.Volume I illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and six plates. Volume II illustrated with six plates. One leaf of adverts to the rear.Volume III illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates.Volume IV illustrated with three plates.Title pages of 'Paradise Lost' are cancels. Collated, complete. Both of John Milton's epic poems bound in four uniform volumes, 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regain'd'.'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, concerning the biblical Fall of Man, with the temptation of Adam and Even, and their…

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.