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Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books ... [and] Paradise Regained. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several 0ccasions … From the Text of Thomas Newton D. D.

Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1760.

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Second Baskerville Royal Octavo Edition. [30], lxxii, [3]-416; [2], [2, Table of Contents], [5]-390 pp. Life of Milton bound with Paradise Lost. Usual errors in numeration. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Full red levant extra gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Fine. Heraldic ownership stamp of T. Marynard on verso of title page. Gaskell 9 & 10.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself | Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

An outstanding copy of the handsome Baskerville octavo. Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem of the later seventeenth century, and profoundly influential upon the course of English literature; his Poems upon Several Occasions includes Lycidas and his verses on Shakespeare.