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MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost . . . Fifth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton and 12 plates, chiefly after Sir John Baptist Medina. [4], 336 pages. Folio, 322x200 mm, modern 1/2 black leather, distinctive white-on-black pictorial endpapers with repeating pattern of cherub and dragon; light dampstaining in blank upper margins, marginal soiling on opening leaves, scattered marginal tears not affecting text or images, portrait mounted, portion of blank outer margin torn off P1. Contemporary ownership inscription of Cha[rles] Kemeys on title, offsetting onto portrait. London: Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson, 1691
