Fine Books and Manuscripts

Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. London: Printed for J. and H. Richter, by T. Spilsbury and Son, 1794.2 vols. 4to, contemporary black straight-grain morocco with scrolling border stamped in gilt and blind to boards, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g. With engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 12 engraved plates, and illustrations throughout by J. Richter after H. Richter. Minor wear to boards; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; offsetting from plates; scattered brownspotting.