The British Poets (Volumes 1 & 2): Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, and Comus, A Mask

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773.

Price: $300.00

Hardcover. Four volumes in two. Small octavo. Contemporary tree calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles & tooling. Spine backs are dry and lacking two morocco labels, the front joint of volume 2 is cracked, about very good set. The boards have retained their polish, with the stained "tree" patterns clearly visible on all four boards, and the text pages are very clean and tight, with toning only to the edges of the endpapers. *ESTC No. T144700*.

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Item #149503 The British Poets (Volumes 1 & 2): Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, and Comus, A Mask. John MILTON.

John Milton
birth name: John Milton
born: 12/9/1608
died: 11/8/1674

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One of the greatest poets of the English language, best konwn for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), in which his "grand style" is used with superb power; its characterization of Satan is one of supreme achievements of world literature. Milton was also a noted historian, scholar, pamphleteer, and civil servant for the Parliamentarians and the Purian Commonwealth. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore