Author: MILTON, JOHN.
Title: Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. With a Preface by Peter Ackroyd and Introduction by John Wain and Illustrations by William Blake.
Description: Royal 4to; pp. xxiv, 304; coloured frontispiece, 11 full page coloured illustrations, notes, bound in quarter Nigerian goatskin with Moire silk sides, title lettered in gilt on spine, green topstain, original slip-case with Blake illustration on one side, fine copy. London; The Folio Society; 2003. Paradise Lost was first published in ten books in 1667. The author later revised and augmented the work, which was published in twelve books in 1674 by S. Simmons. It is this version which is reproduced here, in the Cambridge University Press edition, edited by William Aldis Wright, and published in 1903. The Introduction is a substantially revised version of John Wain's essay 'Strength and Isolation', first published in The Living Milton. ed Frank Kermode, 1960.

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