Books

Two volumes, 8vo. The "Life of Milton" bound in "Paradise Lost" instead of "Regain'd" as called for, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Henry Ralph Willett. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., gilt tooled borders, corners a little worn, rebacked retaining the original red and black morocco labels. Gaskell 4a & 5a.

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.