Paradise Lost

No book-club or reprint-society tells apply to the 17th-century printings. The one recurring trap is the frontispiece portrait: the first edition was NEVER issued with an author portrait, so a portrait found in a 1667 copy is a later insertion, usually the William Dolle engraving taken from the 1674 or 1678 editions. Realistically, donor copies are 18th-century or later editions, Victorian illustrated reprints (Doré and successors), or modern press and book-club issues — all first thus at best.