TITLE: Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake
SUBTITLE: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost
AUTHOR: John Milton with illustrations by William Blake
PUBLISHER: Nonesuch Press
PLACE: London.br.YEAR: 1926
VOLUME: 1
EDITION: First
NUMBERED: 135 / 1450
NO.OF PAGES: [viii] + 283pp with 38 black and white plates
BINDING: Jute cloth with gilded title on the leather of the spine
SIZE:
Height: 25.7 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Depth: 4 cm
TITLE: Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake
SUBTITLE: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost
AUTHOR: John Milton with illustrations by William Blake
PUBLISHER: Nonesuch Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1926
VOLUME: 2
EDITION: First
NUMBERED: 135 / 1450
NO.OF PAGES: [x] + 359pp with 15 black and white plates
BINDING: Jute cloth with gilded title on the leather of the spine
SIZE:
Height: 25.7 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Depth: 4 cm
53 collotype illustrations after Blake printed at the Chiswick Press.
One of the finest of the Nonesuch Press books, with excellent reproductions of the watercolours and extensive notes on them by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books, 394.
The text of this edition of Milton's English Poems is, by arrangement with the delegates of the Oxford University Press, edited by the late Canon Beeching after the earliest printed copies of the several poems. The pictures have been chosen and titled by Geoffrey Keynes.
This edition, printed and made in England, consists of 149 copies in two volumes on Van Gelder rag paper for sale in England and America, and 90 copies (the two volumes bound together) on Oxford India paper.
The letterpress has been printed in the italic type of Blado by Walter Lewis, M.A., Printer to the University, at the Cambridge University Press; the collotype, illustrations by the Chiswick Press, London. The Arabesque ornaments have been designed by D P Bliss. The whole has been arranged by Francis Meynell.
"Paradise Lost" is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the verification. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
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