Descrizione

First edition thus. With facsimile title pages for POEMS 1645; POEMS,&c. Upon Several Occasions 1673; PARADISE LOST. A POEM Written n Ten Books 1667; PARADISE LOST. A POEM in Twelve Books 1674; PARADISE REGAINED. A POEM. In IV Books. To Which is added SAMSON AGONISTES 1671; SAMSON AGONISTES, A Dramatic Poem 1671. 8vo, handsomely bound in full dark-green crushed morocco by Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, one compartment lettered in gilt, gilt ruled turnovers, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. xi, [3], 554 pp. A handsome copy, the green of the spine and extremities mellowed to honey as is usual.

Edizione: a pleasing collection and edition which includes the first reproduction of the scarce small octavo minor poems. this is a reprinting,"as careful as editors and printers have been able to make it, from the earliest printed copies of the several poems. first the 1645 volume of the minor poems has been printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of 1673; the paradise lost, from the edition of 1667; and the paradise regain'd and samson agonistes from the edition of 1671."