Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books [with] Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes.

London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, 1688.

Folio, first folio edition, one of four variants of the fourth edition; engraved portrait frontispiece of the poet by Robert White (1645-1703) bound opposite the title page; illustrated with twelve full-page engravings including images by Peter Paul Bouche and Michael Burghers; divisional titles and separate collations for the subsequent works; all three bound in later half calf, quite worn, in need of rebinding; spotting to frontispiece and following few leaves; some tears, clean tears in center of page 173/174 repaired; front board becoming detached; 14 1/4 x 9 in.

Wing M-2147; Pforzheimer 720; ESTC R15589.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)