Paradise Lost + Paradise Regained, &c [Miniature, 1829]

$550

By John Milton

Beautiful silk-woven miniature editions of these classic English epic poems

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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]