Paradise Lost,
MILTON John (1750)
£450.00
Available to view at our Curzon Street shop.
a Poem in Twelve Books. According to the Author's Last Edition, in the Year 1672.
8vo (150 x 100mm). [16], 317, [3] pp. A very clean copy. Contemporary handsome polished calf, spine tooled in gilt, black morroco and gilt label, speckled edges, marbled endleaves (upper joints just starting but otherwise fine).
Glasgow: by R. & A, Foulis,
Gaskell Bibliography of the Foulis Press 160.
A very handsome copy of one of the most famous poems in the English language.
The famous Foulis press produced a number of different printings of Paradise Lost in various sizes.
Provenance: Sir John Trollope (1800-1874), armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Sir John was second cousin to the novelist Anthony Trollope.
Stock Code: 255276
