(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Milton John Paradise Lost A Poem in

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Milton, John. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. Frontispiece portrait plate by John Norman. 328 pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, worn, peeling; marginal dampstaining on front free endpaper and half-title only, crease on title page, minor spotting on top edges, minor browning throughout; bookplate of early owner Lewis Mabry of Virginia and pencil signature of later owner U.S. Rep. Patrick Henry Drewry on front pastedown. sold without its companion volume, paradise regain'd. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777

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first american edition, more than a century after its first appearance in London--the Revolution inspired American publishers to ignore British copyright. Published with an introductory letter by Jacob Tonson, the poem "On Paradise Lost" by Andrew Marvel, and 2 introductory essays: "The Verse" and "The Arguments of the Twelve Books." A respectable copy in a sturdy original binding with strong hinges. extremely scarce; we know of only 2 copies on the market since 1939. Evans 15443.