BASKERVILLE PRESS 1758 MILTON JOHN Paradise Lost Paradis

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MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. [32], 416 pages, including initial blank * Paradise Regain'd. [2] (of [4]), lxx, 3-390 pages; lacks initial blank. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, top of spines worn, lettering pieces missing from Volume 2 spine; contents generally clean; marbled edges. Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758

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first baskerville edition, octavo issue. Listed among the subscribers is "Benj. Franklin, Esq., Philadelphia." Gaskell 4, 5.