1759 – Paradise Regained – John Milton | Famous Baskerville Printing

Paradise Regained is the famous sequel to Milton’s 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.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paradise Regain’d. A Poem
• Author(s): John Milton
• Contributor(s): Thomas Newton (editor)
• Publisher: Birmingham, Printed by Baskerville for Tonson
• Edition: 1759 ed
• Binding: Full leather
• Format: (4to), single volume
• Size:  9.75in x 7.25in (25cm x 18.5cm)
• Collation: 390, [4] p
• Contents Include:
  • Text of Paradise Regain’d; Samson Agonistes
• Provenance: bookplate – Clement Edward Hoyland of Stock Park

Condition:

Very Good. Bound in full leather with decorative gilt tooling and gilt page edges. Binding is tight and secure with some hinge wear. Text is complete. Portrait frontispiece is lacking. Pages are clean with minimal age wear.

Why Collect This?

• Printed by the renowned John Baskerville
• Follows Paradise Lost with theological and poetic depth
• Gilt leather binding

Item Number: # 29804