[Fore-edge Painting] Poetical Works of John Milton reprinted From the best editions, with Memoir, Explanatory and Classical Notes, etc. Original illustrations and steel Portrait

[Fore-edge Painting] Poetical Works of John Milton reprinted from the best editions, with Memoir, Explanatory and Classical Notes, etc. Original illustrations and steel Portrait. c.1885. London: Frederick Warne and Co.

8vo Full brown morocco, all edges gilt, marble endpapers. Signed binding by Mudie. A gilted engraving on the cover states "Cambridge Local Examinations" with a logo beneath it, see pic. The fore-edge painting is of a landscape with Blankincop Locomotive at a Yorkshire Colliery with a Hiker in the foreground. An inscription of the former owner's name on the first flyleaf, see pic. A beautifully bound and handsome edition of the works of Milton.

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets.