1760 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd

Description

Leather Binding, Rebound

A Baskerville edition.

Complete as two volumes bound in one.

ESTC citation number T134228 and N11290 - 'Paradise Regain'd' with 'Life of Milton' paginated in Roman numerals.

List of subscribers to the front of 'Paradise Lost'. Pages 69, 231, 235, 262, and 330 misnumbered 96, 131, 135, 268, and 230.

Bound by BookEnds.

Collated, complete.

Both of John Milton's epic poems bound in one volume, 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regain'd'.

'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, concerning the biblical Fall of Man, with the temptation of Adam and Even, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The poem is considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

The sequel, 'Paradise Regain'd', is likewise a blank verse poem, though is much shorter than its predecessor, being described as a brief epic.

Written by John Milton, a seventeenth century English poet, who is best known for 'Paradise Lost'. He wrote during a period of political upheaval and religious flux in England with the English Civil War.

John Baskerville was an important and pioneering printer and type designer who invented 'wove paper'.

Prior owner's ink inscription to the verso of the front blank. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title of 'Paradise Lost'.