Paradise Lost
New York, nd. Cassell Publishing Co. Quarto. Item #024080
Frontispiece, 311 pp., illustrated by Gustave Dore with 50 wonderful full page black and white illustrations and with an introduction by Robert Vaughan. Paradise Lost introduces Milton's intention to write a great epic of lasting literary importance about the biblical story of the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise, and the consequences of eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. It also tells the reader, briefly, about the rebellion of some of the angels. The story begins with Satan and his rebel angels being cast out of Heaven, leading Satan to plot revenge against God by corrupting His newest creation, humanity. The illustrations bring the story to life. A very good copy bound in pictorial gilt brown cloth lettered and stamped in black and gilt, spine lettered and decorated inblack and gilt, some spots of rubbing to spine ends and edges, no names or bookpaltes.
Price: $325.00