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London: F. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, F. Hodges, B. Dod, E. Wicksted, F. Oswald, F. Ward, F. Brindley, and C. Corbet, 1754. 3rd Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Francis Haymen, Charles Grignion, Simon Francois Ravenet. a 491 page hardcover ( 9.5 X 11.5 ) in very good condition covered in full calf with remains of gold gilt border and a six column spine with gold gilt decorations and faded title,front cover board shows blackening to upper and lower inside corner near spine, front board attachment reinforced with 1" brown fabric tape, full page frontispiece of Milton dated 1747 by Geroge Vertue, full page frontispieces for all six book sections by Haymen engraved by Grignion & Ravenet, includes: Dedication to Earl of Bath; preface; Newton' Life of Milton; poems by Samuel Barrow and Andrew Marvel; critique by Mr. (Joseph) Addison, minor pencil notes to end papers, 3rd edition (1754) as stated, became the standard scholarly work on Milton for the next…

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.