Martin, John (illustrator), The Paradise Lost of Milton, London: Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1849: Quarto, rebound in later twentieth-century cloth, the spine with label with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated with 24 full-page mezzotint plates by John Martin, [9], 373pp. A very good copy in good orde for ager, foxing throughout but only to margins of the plates the mezzotints remaining sharp. First published in 1827, the English Romantic artist and engraver John Martin's (1789-1854) illustrated edition of 'Paradise Lost', containing his suite of 24 dark, dramatic, and deeply atmospheric mezzotints, came to form one of the most enduring visual representations of Milton's masterpiece of epic poetry.

Published: Henry Washbourne, London 1849