Attractive prize binding from Wellington College

Including Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd. Originally published in 1667, Paradise Lost was Milton's seminal work on the Biblical story of the Fall of Man. Despite Milton's tentative wish that it might 'fit audience find, though few', it was immediately endorsed as an impressive accomplishment by his opponents and allies alike.

8vo (185 x 140mm); illustrated frontispiece of the poet, facsimile pages from original editions, discreet inscription in ink to ffep; bound in vellum with gilt vignette depicting arms from Wellington College to upper board, lettering in gilt to spine within leather caption, plate to front pastedown, fore-edges sprayed in light red, very good; [xiii], [3], 554pp.