Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. / The authour John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

White, Robert, 1645-1703, illustrator.

Language:

English

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Great Britain -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Legge, W. (autograph)

Pearl, Burton William (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 pages ., 343, that is, 345 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm

Edition:

The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob Tonson, 1688.

Notes:

The first illustrated edition.

Errors in paging: no. 219-220 repeated in the paging; p. 251-297 incorrectly numbered 151-197.

Williamson, George Charles "The portraits, prints and writings of John Milton," p. 50, 117.

Signatures: [A]-B , C-Z , Aa-Xx , Yy-Zz , Aa (Pp , incorrectly signed Pp )

Title within double line border.

"The Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes of the same date often accompany this edition, and have a title of Poetical Works"-Lowndes.

Subscriber's list: [6] p. at end.

Local Notes:

Bound with: Milton, John. Paradise regain'd. London, 1688.

Imperfect: Plate for Book IV wanting.

Cited in:

Wing M-2146.

Lowndes p.1558.

Grolier. Wither to Prior 607

Pforzheimer 720.

OCLC:

2204020