Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Second Edition, With Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton.

£750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A very good set of this scholarly edition of Milton’s famed epic poem, first published in 1667. Covers rather scuffed and worn. A few small worm tracks to blank lower margin of vol. 1 and a single tiny worm track to blank lower margins throughout most of the second half of Vol. 2 with larger worm track to the blank upper margins of final 38 leaves. A few pencil annotations.

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