Paradise Lost.; A Poem in Twelve Books. From the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D. With: Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes: And Poems Upon Several Occasions, From the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D.
London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First editions thus. Two vols., uniform 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; contemporary calf, rebacked with elaborately gilt-tooled spines. The first Baskerville books in English (preceded by Virgil in Latin), with all cancels called for, p. 135 correctly numbered..... More