Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692.

Folio, fifth edition, second illustrated edition, with Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes; a reissue of the 1691 edition with the imprint reset; engraved portrait of the author bound before the title (small patch on verso); illustrated with twelve full page plates, one for each chapter in the first work; some occasional toning and light water stains; bound in modern full leather, amateurishly executed; 12 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Wing M-2150; Shawcross 362; ESTC R356.