1853 Milton's Poetical Works (2 Vols) Paradise Lost / Regained : Original Cloth

Milton's Poetical Works

Publsihed by James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1853. Complete in Two Volumes. Hardback, original blind-stamped cloth bindings, 333 + 328 pages.

CONDITION
Both volumes in good condition with their cloth bindings good with no tearing. Endpapers good. Name and date to the front endpaper of each volume. All contents present and pages clean throughout and free from foxing, sains etc. Overall very good.

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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