MILTON (John).

Paradise Lost,

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, 1750.

£450.00

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.

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