PARADISE LOST: A Poem in Twelve Books With a Preface by Peter Ackroyd, an Introduction by John Wain and Illustrations by William Blake.

FIRST THUS Folio hardback in quarter dark green morocco, gilt, with peach moire silk boards, in dark green paper-covered slipcase with colour illustration pasted to one side. Top edge dark blue. 304pp. with 12 full page colour plates of William Blake's pen and watercolour paintings done in 1808. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. A VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD SLIPCASE.