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MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. Etched frontispiece portrait of Milton. [8], lxxii, 416 pages * Paradise Regain'd. 390 [i. e., 392] pages. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, paste-paper boards, spines faded, worn at top; some browning at beginning and end of first volume, contents of the second volume generally clean; marbled edges. Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1759
Second Baskerville edition; first state of title in Paradise Regain'd. Without the plates found in some sets. Gaskell 6, 7. With the bookplates of the novelist and Baskerville biographer Ralph Straus.
