The Poetical Works of John Milton
London: William Pickering, 1851. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Complete in Three Volumes. Three 12mos, xx, cxxxiv, [6], 153; 372; 334 pages, finely bound in uniform full leather with gilt decoration and small raised bands to spines. Marbled endpapers and edges. An attractive nineteenth-century edition of the poetical works of John Milton, issued as part of William Pickering's celebrated *Aldine Edition of the British Poets*. The collection includes Milton's great epic poems *Paradise Lost* and *Paradise Regained*, together with *Samson Agonistes*, his shorter poems, sonnets, and other verse. Distinguished by its elegant typography and scholarly presentation, the Aldine series was among the notable editions of English poetry published during the nineteenth century. Some slight rubbing and wear, foxing and discoloration, else in very good + condition. Item #644
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