Books

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Eighth Edition With Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D., London, 1775. Volume I - Frontispiece + five full page engravings, 491pp.; Volume II - Frontisportrait + three full page engravings, 460pp. +116pp. index. Volume III, Paradise Regain'd, A Poem, in Four Books to which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions, London: 1777. Frontisportrait + five full page engravings. Original boards with ornate gilt spines show some wear and rubbing. Bindings very good, hinges show some starting but holding well. Spines executed in seven compartments with gilt decorations and lettering on red labels. Contents excellent with only some light toning to a few pages and the usual offsetting of the plates. A lovely 18th century set of Milton's masterpiece in a contemporary binding. Size: Folio.

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.