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A very pleasing and handsomely bound edition. Large 8vo, in a period binding of full dark-maroon polished calf, the covers with double gilt filled ruled borders enclosing an inner stippled frame in blind, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments richly decorated in gilt, green morocco lettering label gilt, blindt tooled turn-ins and gilt board edges, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. [xxxx], 699 pp. A fine copy, especially well preserved, the binding strong and tight and in pleasing condition, light mellowing to the spine panel as is typical with the colour of the binding, the mellowing to an attractive honey colour.

Edizione: a very handsomely bound copy of this great collection of milton's most important poems. a truly user friendly with a very attractive and readable typeface and with an excellent life of the poet by chalmers. the volume contains samson agonistes, comus, a mask, miscellaneous poems, the sonnets, paradise lost and regain’d and a host of other works including psalms, l'allegro, lycidas etc. etc. <br> a truly towering figure, milton remains one of the most celebrated and analyzed poets in english literature. dryden described ‘paradise lost’ as ‘one of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced,’ while blake, keying in on the poem’s heretical implications, described milton as ‘a true poet, and of the devil’s party without knowing it.’<br> this thorough collection includes not only ‘paradise lost’ and the other major works, but the sonnets, odes, translations, and ‘poemata’ in latin.