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[30], lxxii, [3]-416; [2], [2, Table of Contents], [5]-390 pp. Life of Milton bound with Paradise Lost. Usual errors in numeration. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. The mind is its own place, and in itself | Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. An outstanding copy of the handsome Baskerville octavo. Milton s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem of the later seventeenth century, and profoundly influential upon the course of English literature; his Poems upon Several Occasions includes Lycidas and his verses on Shakespear. Gaskell 9 & 10 Full red levant extra gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Fine. Heraldic ownership stamp of T. Marynard on verso of title page [30], lxxii, [3]-416; [2], [2, Table of Contents], [5]-390 pp. Life of Milton bound with Paradise Lost. Usual errors in numeration. 2 vols. Royal 8vo.

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.