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Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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MILTON, JOHN
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently, 1688.Small folio, 3/4 mottled calf, rebacked, with old repairs to corners and backstrip. Fourth edition, "adorn'd with sculptures." First folio edition. Complete with engraved portrait frontispiece by White after Faithorne, and 12 engraved plates by Michael Burghers and Peter Paul Bouche. With "the Verse" and 6 pg. list of subscribers at rear. Wear to boards with some loss to calf; scattered brownspotting; repairs to some leaves.





