Dec 04, 2006 - Sale 2096

Sale 2096 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost . . . Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton and 12 plates, chiefly after Sir John Baptist Medina. [4], 343, [7] pages. Folio, 317x195 mm, contemporary sheep, rebacked in the early 19th-century, badly worn overall, covers detached; some toning and soiling, occasional worming not impairing legibility, portrait and title reinforced in gutters, small rust hole in G2 affecting 2 letters, small piece torn from blank outer margin of plate facing page 85, clean tear in plate facing page 193. London: Miles Flesher for Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson, 1688

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first illustrated edition.