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John Milton | First Editions
1608 - 1674
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![The Poetical Works of John Milton [PARADISE LOST]. With Notes and a Life of the Author by John...](/pictures/thumb/32314.jpg?v=1493310831)
The Poetical Works of John Milton [PARADISE LOST]. With Notes and a Life of the Author by John Mitford.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1852. BOSTON EDITION. Quarto, pp. cxxix; 371; 478; [6], advertisements. Two volumes bound in one. With a portait frontispsiece. In publisher's red cloth with decorative gilt titles as well as Milton's portrait and a muse playing lyre in gilt to spine; embossed boards. Text framed... More about The Poetical Works of John Milton [PARADISE LOST]. With Notes and a Life of the Author by John...
The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. The Cambridge Edition.
Boston, MA, and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxxiv; 419; [3]. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in double column. Contemporary red half morocco over lighter red cloth boards, raised bands and gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Textblock slightly toned. Binding a little... More about The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. The Cambridge Edition
![Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books [and] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In Four Books. To which...](/pictures/thumb/54246.jpg?v=1567527114)
Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books [and] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. And Poems upon several Occasions. Compos'd at several Times.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707 and 1727. [Epic Poetry] FINELY BOUND EARLY EDITIONS, the thirteenth and fifth respectively. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xxxvi; 514 [34]; pp.[2] 457 [5]. Page 514 in 'Paradise Lost' misnumbered 524. With the copper engraved frontispiece by George Vertue to 'Paradise Lost.' Also... More about Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books [and] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In Four Books. To which...
A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton. Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; containing several Original Papers of his, never before published.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738. 2 volumes; Folio. Large paper with wide margins. Sumptuous contemporary gilt and blind tooled panelled calf boards, elaborately gilt and blank tooled spines with gilt titles; blind and gilt dentelles with grey end papers; all edges gilt. Expert repair to joints. Fine. Engraved frontispiece... More about A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton....
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
London: John Baskerville, for J and R. Tonson, 1758. First Baskerville edition. 2 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Full red English calf with full gilt backs, twin labels, elaborate gilt border to sides, Dutch marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Contents clean, bindings nicely aged, spines a little chipped... More about Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes
The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors.
London: C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, J. and W.T. Clarke, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, Jeffery and Son, J. Richardson, Carpenter and Son, J. Mawman, Baldwin and Co., J. Booker, J. Bohn, J. Duncan, Black and Co., G.B. Whittaker, J. Bain, W. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Six volumes..... More about The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Text printed in red and black. Reproduction plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. A fine, as new copy. 'Paradise Lost', a.... More about Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman
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