N.D. Circa 1860; John Milton; Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo; Full Rebound Leather; Illustrated; 31/455 Pages; w4.6"xh6.8"; Rare!

• Beautiful full dark green leather cover design with gold pinstriped borders, gold trim/maroon label to spine, gold gilded cover edges, blind stamped inner board edges, marble end pages/page edges, with a lovely frontispiece and vignette title page, about 10 fine illustrations, and Some Great Classics; Some Poems at the End in Latin!

• John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

• Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.