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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books Milton, John London: Printed for J. and H. Richter by T. Spilsbury and Son 1794 Thick. large quarto ), [title leaf], [4] (A List of the Subscribers, this is found at the end), [2] (section title for Book I), 1-[170], [2] (section title for Book V, aside from one and five all the other section titles are included in the pagination), [171]-493 pp., portrait frontis. engraved dedication leaf with vignette, 12 plates with five of them , , The plates and vignettes, dated 1794-1796, are engraved by J. Richter after designs by Henry Richter; the portrait is engraved from an original by William Faithorne each of the twelve books has a large vignette as headpiece, superb steel engraving, on heavy laid paper, from the library of the noted art dealer, Max Safron of New York. Bound in 19th century superb 3/4 crimson levant morocco and marbled boards, note one scuff to board, one bump to corner, one joint needing repair, else a crisp, internally fine copy in a superb morocco binding.

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.