Paradise Lost + Paradise Regained, &c [Miniature, 1829]
$550
By John Milton
Beautiful silk-woven miniature editions of these classic English epic poems
In stock
Description
- Two volumes – Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books AND Paradise Regained & Other Poems
- Miniature Editions [Jones & Company, London, 1829]; 9 x 5.5cm
- Paradise Lost: blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1824], xii, 268 pages, blank leaf; green silk-woven boards, spine slightly faded, silk a little worn at extremities, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an essentially fine copy
- Paradise Regained: blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1824], xvii, [blank], 201, [3 blank] pages; green silk-woven boards, spine slightly faded, silk a little worn at extremities, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an essentially fine copy
- Part of the Jones’ Diamond Poets series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
- Includes The Life Of John Milton by Andrew Marvell & A Critique On Paradise Regained [uncredited but presume Marvell again]