1817 EXQUISITE John Milton Paradise Lost Complete Works

1817 EXQUISITE John Milton Paradise Lost Complete Works Westall Art 4v SET

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

A charming collection of John Milton’s works including ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regain’d’ among his other poetry and writings. These beautiful books include 24 full-page engravings by Richard Westall and George Corbould depicting the characters of Milton’s most famous works.

‘Paradise Lost’ was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.

“[Paradise Lost shows] Milton’s peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.

Current Christian writer at the time C.S. Lewis, also interpreted Milton’s landmark poem as a ‘genuine Christian morality tale’ (Leonard)

Item number: #8511

Price: $499

MILTON, John

Milton’s Poems.

London: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1817.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes

Vol. I – Paradise Lost

8, 908—912

7 engraved plates

Vol. II – Paradise Lost

[2], 642—649, [1]

7 engraved plates

Vol. III – Paradise Regained

[4], 616—639; 64; 39, [1]; 7, [1]

4 engraved plates

Vol. IV – Minor Poems, Sonnets, Odes, Translations, and Miscellaneous works

[2], 188

6 engraved plates

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Vol. IV – Visible repair at front inner hinge

Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)

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Condition Report: Excellent.