About the Book:A beautiful vintage fine-press edition of John Milton's legendary epic poem chronicling the fall of man, complete with its original protective slipcase box and brilliant full-page color art plates by William Blake. The binding is structurally sound, and the interior text pages remain crisp and bright.Provenance Note (Association Copy):This volume features the personal blind-embossed library stamp of Thomas M. Engels on the opening page. For collectors of tech history and dark irony, Engels was a pioneering mathematician whose early work helped lay the foundational algorithms and computational code behind modern Artificial Intelligence (AI)—making this copy of Paradise Lost a uniquely fitting artifact from the library of someone who helped script the potential downfall of human civilization.