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Ornately decorated book binding for John Milton's Paradise Regained, featuring gold detailing, floral patterns, and a central illustration of a long-tailed bird. Ornate edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, open to a page with gold embossed text and decorative borders, with a textured snakeskin pattern on the inside cover. Benedictine monk Dom Placido Bortolaso in a robe carefully restoring old book covers at a worktable in the Vatican Institute, surrounded by tools and stacks of books.
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Milton, John: Paradise Regained
An edition of John Milton's Paradise Regained; the binding, which includes...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Helen Swift Neilson, 1946 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
John Milton: Paradise Regained
An edition (1758–60) of John Milton's Paradise Regained; the binding, which...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Helen Swift Neilson, 1945 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Restoration of an old book
Benedictine monk Dom Placido Bortolaso restores an old book at the Vatican Institute...
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