John Milton:  The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations


. . . Yet I shall temper so / Justice with mercy.  (Book 10, l. 77)

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Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Paradise Lost. London: The Cresset Press, 1931.
Call Number: (RARE) PR 3560 1931b
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

This exquisite Cresset Press production of Milton's Paradise Lost is set from Milton's second edition of 1674. The plates and illustrations are woodcuts designed by D. Galanis while the title page and initial letters are designed by Anna Simons.

Only 195 copies of this edition were printed, hand-numbered 1-195. Ten copies are printed on vellum and are numbered I through X. This copy is number 4.


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