'one of the greatest works of the human imagination'
MILTON, John.
Paradise Lost. A poem in ten books. The third edition. Revised and augmented by the same author.
London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1678.
Before his death Milton had reorganised the work into 12 books, consciously adopting the division used by Virgil in the Aeneid, and thereby making 'explicit the parallel with the epics of classical antiquity' to which he had always aspired (ODNB).
With the oft omitted frontispiece portrait of Milton by William Dolle, as well as the prefatory note on 'The Verse' making the case for 'English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin', and the short commendatory poem by Milton's friend, the noted metaphysical poet and satirist Andrew Marvel, defending his 'sublime' use of blank verse.
Third edition; 8vo (18 x 11.5 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece of Milton by William Dolle, bound without final blanks ff, slightly toned with occasional spotting; contemporary rear mottled calf board, expertly rebacked with replacement upper board, gilt spine, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges, very good; [8], 331, [1]pp.
ESTC R19396; Wing M2145; Pforzheimer 719.
Stock code 120696
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