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Paradise Lost

Signed first edition thus of John Milton's Paradise Lost

John Milton; introduction by Philip PullmanSir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman
First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 374. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; red endpapers. Text printed in red and black. 12 b/w illus. by Michael Burghers and P. P. Bouche, reproduced from the first illustrated edition of Paradise Lost, published in 1688. Smyth sewn binding, with bound-in red ribbon page-marker. In illustrated dustjacket, printed in red and white and priced at £16.99 to front flap.
With a ten-page introduction by Philip Pullman, whose 'Dark Materials' trilogy can be read in part as an inverted re-telling of this – Milton's epic poem of the Fall of Man – with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing; original sin. Signed by Pullman to title-page. "Pullman sagely advises the uninitiated to put sound before sense, allowing the power of Milton's music to work its magic." Wall Street Journal
special feature
signed
edition
first edition thus
format
hardback, illustrated edition
publisher
Oxford University Press
published in
Oxford
publication year
2005
ISBN
019280619X
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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ref.5R8 U74