Milton, John

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: by S. Simmons, 1669
paper, ink, leather

4to (170 x 120 mm). Two small chips from title-page, lower corner of Rr2 torn away with loss of text to last five lines, often trimmed to page rules, intermittent light spotting or stains. Modern calf to style.

Literature

Wing M-2142; Grolier, Wither to Prior 603; Pforzheimer 718.

Catalogue Note

first edition with reset title-page in the Pforzheimer fifth issue. In this state "Angel" in the imprint is in roman. "To the Reader is in six lines.

"One of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced."- John Dryden