1900 The Poetical Works of John Milton

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Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy, Rebound, Signed Binding

A collection of the poetry of John Milton, containing Milton's best known work, 'Paradise Lost'.

'Paradise Lost' is an epic poem written in blank verse, an biblical poem that tells the story of the Fall of Man, being the temptation of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

John Milton was a noted English poet of the seventeenth century, considered to be one of the best English poets of all time.

Illustrated with two plates containing facsimile manuscripts of Milton's, and also containing many in-text facsimile title pages for various works of Milton's.

Collated and complete. 

Also containing a tipped-in portrait of Milton to one of the front free-endpapers. 

Handsomely bound in full morocco by Birdsall, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown.