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Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1759. Second Baskerville quarto edition, title page of Paradise Regain'd in first, canceled, state, with "PSON" erased and "SON" overprinted. Frontispiece portrait engraved by J. Miller, life of Milton, [vii: title, half-title, In Paradisum Amissam by Samuel Barrow, and On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvel], 416 pp.; 1-2, Life of Milton [lxxii], 3-390, [2] pp.; half-titles for SA, Poems, Poemata. 2 vols. Small 4to. Near-contemporary straight-grained red morocco, with elaborate gilt spines and covers, with peony and other floral motifs, wheat, acorns, and harp motifs, with gilt dentelles, aeg, with one small hole near the top of the spine of volume 1; fine, with 18th-century ownership signature [B. Beresford]. Second Baskerville quarto edition, title page of Paradise Regain'd in first, canceled, state, with "PSON" erased and "SON" overprinted. Frontispiece portrait engraved by J. Miller, life of Milton,…

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.