MILTON'S PARADISE REGAINED: Fore-Edge Painting, with Select Notes Subjoined: to which is added a Complete Collection of his Miscellaneous Poems, both English and Latin

MILTON'S PARADISE REGAINED
with Select Notes Subjoined: to which is added a Complete Collection of his Miscellaneous Poems, both English and Latin

Milton, John

Published by Printed by Bensley for Printed by T. Bensley; for T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. and J. Robinson, W. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, J. Scatcherd, Ogilvy and Speare, W. Lowndes, G. and T. Wilkie, G. Kearsley, Vernor and Hood, T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, and S. Hayes. London, 1796

Bound in 18c full red straight grain Morocco simple gilt lines on the board and spine stormont pattern marble endpapers. Slight wear to the head and board edges, commensurate with its age.Engraved frontice and three engraved plates throughout, some foxing of the plates and prelims. 428pp. bookplate on front paste down. R.Foyle booksellers ticket to the inside of the front fly leaf.

Paradise Regained, this collection includes Samson Agonistes, poems upon several occasions, sonnets, psalms, a Latin ode to John Milton by Joannes Baptista Mansus (Poemata), & select notes on Paradise Regained.

FORE-EDGE PAINTING

A very early fore-edge painting, unsigned and un-named, probably an English estuary lined with houses and park and a dock leading to small river boats for possible rental and a church clock tower in the back ground. A wonderfully detailed painting. Milton's works became one of the earliest works for fore-edge painting to be executed on with some of the paintings of this period as early as 1779.