MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost...The fourth edition, adorn'd with Sculptures. London: Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson 1688. Folio, 376 x 232 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 1/8 in.), eighteenth-century pale calf, covers with gilt roll border and a small center ornamental lozenge of massed small flower tools, spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, red morocco label in one, four massed gilt tools used in the rest, minor repairs to four blank margins. First Illustrated and First Folio Edition, Large Paper, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White and 12 engraved plates by M. Burghers (or Burgess) and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, B. Lens and others. Wing M2147; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 16. | Christie's

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MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost...The fourth edition, adorn'd with Sculptures. London: Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson 1688. Folio, 376 x 232 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 1/8 in.), eighteenth-century pale calf, covers with gilt roll border and a small center ornamental lozenge of massed small flower tools, spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, red morocco label in one, four massed gilt tools used in the rest, minor repairs to four blank margins. First Illustrated and First Folio Edition, Large Paper, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White and 12 engraved plates by M. Burghers (or Burgess) and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, B. Lens and others. Wing M2147; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 16.

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MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost...The fourth edition, adorn'd with Sculptures. London: Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson 1688. Folio, 376 x 232 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 1/8 in.), eighteenth-century pale calf, covers with gilt roll border and a small center ornamental lozenge of massed small flower tools, spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, red morocco label in one, four massed gilt tools used in the rest, minor repairs to four blank margins. First Illustrated and First Folio Edition, Large Paper, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White and 12 engraved plates by M. Burghers (or Burgess) and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, B. Lens and others. Wing M2147; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 16.

"The earliest serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry"--Edward Hodnett, Five Centuries of Book Illustration (1988, p.63).