Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Regain'd . . . to which is added, Samson Agonistes. [4], 111, [1]; 101, [2] pages, including initial license leaf and errata leaf at end. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, spine ends worn, joints starting; few marginalia and insignificant stains, contemporary inscription in Greek on Samson title verso. Leaf with contemporary ownership inscription of Shadrach Cook of Christ's College, Cambridge ("Sum Shadracis Cook . . . ex dono authoris") tipped to front free endpaper; bookplate of William Warren Carman. London: J. M. for John Starkey, 1671

Additional Details

first edition; second state of page 67 in Paradise Regain'd, with "loth" instead of "loah" on line 2. Shawcross 309; Wing M2152.