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Text volume in black cloth with purple leather spine label and gilt spine titling, with matching black cloth slipcase, 4to, 397pp. Printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press. Hand numbered (Copy 243 of 400). Together with the companion black linen portfolio (22.25 x 17.25 inches) with printed paper title label to front; containing the first full-scale facsimiles of the suite of 13 watercolor drawings by William Blake. Reproduced from the originals at the Huntington Library and suitable for framing or display. Portfolio was Limited to 400 numbered copies; this copy No. 65. An ambitious and stunning production marking the 64th & 69th books printed by the Arion Press in celebration of Milton's 400th birthday. (minor light rubbing to text volume at spine). Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�".

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.