Paradise Lost, a Poem AND Paradise Regained, etc.

Paradise Lost, a Poem AND Paradise Regained, etc. 1816. London: John Sharpe.

8vo (4.5" x 8") Two volumes. 384 + 432 pp. Full navy polished calf with fancy gilt rule framing covers. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in two compartments, heavy gilt decoration to all other compartments, gilt year at foot. All edges marbled, beautiful marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Lower extremities were lightly rubbed in spots. Spots of foxing to the first and last few pages on text affecting engraved title pages, and plates throughout. Prior owners' names in old ink and pencil to the first free flyleafs. Illustrated with 24 engraved plates, including the engraved title pages, between the two volumes. A Near Fine, if not Fine, set of books, over two hundred years old, with great shelf appeal.

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets.

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