Milton Paradise Lost Dore - Private Art Tours

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John Milton. Paradise Lost. Dore plates.

Peter Fenelon Collier Publisher, New York

Edited, with notes by Robert Vaughan, DD.

Lithographic folio plates by Gustave Dore

First impression.

Hardcover bound in a brown embossed cardboard spine and heavy end boards with both covers and the spine decorated with gilt motifs and borders. First edition, first printing in near Fine condition. A Limited Edition with Gustave Dore detailed illustrations. Decorated endpapers, hubbed spine and Original end papers with marble pattern. This beautiful book is about 9 3/8 by 6 1/4″. Internally in very good condition. No foxing.

Published by London and New York: Cassell, Peter, and Galpin, [circa 1880s], 1880,

originally published 1866.

Edges are browned, not gilt.

John Milton. Paradise Lost. Dore plates.