GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE
GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE

GUSTAV DORE - Milton's PARADISE LOST - 1889, DEMONS SATAN LUCIFER ANGELS BIBLE

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Milton's PARADISE LOST 

Book Details + Condition: Pollard & Moss (New York). Early edition from 1889 (first published in 1887 by publisher). With notes and a life of Milton by Robert Vaughan. Includes 50 full-page illustrations by Gustave Doré. Ornately decorated cover and with embossed spine; cover dramatically portrays angel of God commanding serpent to depart while Lucifer glides overhead. 401 pages. Measures 12”x10”. The boards and binding are solid and tight; bumped and rubbed corners and edges; heavy shelf wear, with darkened boards and fading to gilt and overall image; decorated front endpaper missing; chipping to title page edges; a few small repaired tears (mainly at edges - this paper is notoriously fragile); pages darkened with foxing at edges (as well as on last blank page). A solid copy of an uncommon edition.