1750 Paradise Lost John Milton Poetry English Allegory Hayman Illustrated Newman



“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost



A charming illustrated printing of John Milton’s work ‘Paradise Lost’. This 1750 edition features all twelve full-page Hayman engravings along with a ‘life of the author’ by Thomas Newman, which was replaced by that of Fenton in the next edition.



‘Paradise Lost’ follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to “Justify the ways of God to Men”. It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.



It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.

“[Paradise Lost shows] Milton’s peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.

Writer C.S. Lewis also interpreted Milton’s landmark poem as a ‘genuine Christian morality tale’ (Leonard).



Item number: #9930

Price: $599



MILTON, John



Paradise lost: a poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton



London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, B. Dod, E. Wicksted, J. Oswald, J. Ward, J. Brindley, C. Corbet and J. New, 1750. Second edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes

Vol. 1 – [24], lxxxv, [27], 510

6 engraved plates

Vol. 2 – [4], 5-456, [210]

6 engraved plates

References: ESTC T 135747; John Leonard’s “Introduction” to Paradise Lost

Provenance:

Armorial Bookplate – Thomas Fenwick

Handwritten – Fred: Nicalay

Language: English

Binding: Leather

Both volumes, visible repair at inner hinges

Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)



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