The Poetical Works of John Milton, 1840. Small Hardback

Small hardback version of The Poetical Works of John Milton. Published Allan Bell & Co. Warwick Square, London, 1840. Gilt decoration and edges. Includes - Volume I: Paradise Lost and Volume II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, L’Allegro, Il Pensroso, sonnets, odes, psalms, Cowper’s Translations of the Latin Poems and Encomiums upon Milton.

Good condition. Inscription in ink on backpage: "Elizabeth Birkhead from her affectionate James, 13 February 1843"

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.