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Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The Author John Milton. The second edition, With Notes of various Authors, By Thomas Newton, D. D. Volume the First
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 2 volumes in 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [24], lxxxv, [31], 510, ff. [7] (plates, including frontispiece), ff. [3] (blank). Contemporary calf. Spine on 5 bars with red and black panels, edges spread in blue. With engraved frontispiece portrait of John Milton (signed G. Vertue) and 6 engraved plates. Includes tailpieces. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Thomas Newton, later Bishop of Bristol, Samuel Johnson’s friend from...