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Volumes 1-2 - Paradise lost : a poem, in twelve books

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Volumes 1-2 - Paradise lost : a poem, in twelve books
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/142307341
Description	The author, John Milton

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1773 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Poems Christianity Bible stories Religious ethics Epic poems
Person / organisation:	Milton, John, 1608-1674 [Author] Kincaid, Alexander, 1710 or 1711-1777 [Bookseller] Creech, William, 1745-1815 [Bookseller] Balfour, John, -1795 [Bookseller] Scott, James, -approximately 1786 [Binder]
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James Scott bindings
Description	A set of 42 volumes of 'The British Poets' series bound in dark red morocco leather by James Scott of Edinburgh, sometime around 1776. Scott was one of the finest bookbinders working in 18th-century Britain. The bindings of each volume have been digitised to show the tools he used. Published in 1773, the 'British Poets' series consists of selected key poetical works written in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Shelfmark	Bdg.s.835
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record James Scott's 'British Poets' series bindings The National Library has one of only two sets of multi-volume works known to have been bound by James Scott of Edinburgh. Read more about these books.