Lot 56
  • 56

Milton, John.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A collection of editions of "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regain'd":
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... revised by John Hawkey. Dublin: for the editor, 1747, 8vo, 2H3, 2R3 and 2Y4 in cancelled state, 2G4 uncancelled with reading "die" in line 330 on p.240, first Irish edited edition, morocco label, endpapers slightly soiled and torn with some early notes and scribblings; another copy, with: Paradise Regained. A Poem in Four Books. With the other Poetical Works... Dublin: for the editor, 1752, these two in contemporary tan morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Kenelm Henry Digby; Paradise Regain'd... to which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon Several Occasions. Glasgow: Robert Foulis, 1747, later  green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, title page and preliminaries with tiny tears; Paradise Lost, a Poem, in Twelve Books... with Notes, Selected from Newton and Others. Nottingham: C. Sutton, 1805, mid ninteenth-century half brown morocco with marbled boards, uncut, top edge gilt, some spotting and browning; 8vo and 12mo (5)

Condition

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