Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Bently, 1688. Folio (312 x 195 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and 12 plates, subscription list at end. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition: front free endpaper with a repaired tear, frontispiece mounted and slightly trimmed, light browning and thumbsoiling; rebacked, covers worn. Provenance: Ferdinand William Ackwright (bookplate and signature to front pastedown); Sir William Erskine Scott (bookplate, with note about its purchase from a Warwick bookseller in 1888). The first illustrated edition of Miltons Poems. Wing M-2147
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Bently, 1688. Folio (312 x 195 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and 12 plates, subscription list at end. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition: front free endpaper with a repaired tear, frontispiece mounted and slightly trimmed, light browning and thumbsoiling; rebacked, covers worn. Provenance: Ferdinand William Ackwright (bookplate and signature to front pastedown); Sir William Erskine Scott (bookplate, with note about its purchase from a Warwick bookseller in 1888). The first illustrated edition of Miltons Poems. Wing M-2147
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