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[MILTON, John (1608?1674)]. ?? FLATTERS, Johann Jakob (1786...

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[MILTON, John (1608?1674)]. ?? FLATTERS, Johann Jakob (1786?1845), illustrator. The Paradise Lost of Milton? London: Nattali and Bond, 1851. Folio (445 x 305 mm). Title vignette, 54 full?page engravings by Flatters (spotting to plates, some with marginal dampstains). Early half crimson morocco tooled in gilt, wide raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, remainder with gilt titles, all edges gilt (uneven darkening to covers with few spots of cockling, some rubbing to extremities, contemporary ownership signature to ffep). SCARCE edition of Milton?s epic poem told only through illustrations.