Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the authour John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Lens, Bernard, 1659-1725.

Lens, Bernard, the elder, 1659-1725.

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 343, that is, 345 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)

Edition:

The sixth edition, with sculptures, to which is added explanatory notes upon each book and a table to the poem, never before printed.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by Tho. Hodgkin for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695.

Notes:

A section of the 1695 Tonson ed. of The poetical works of Mr. John Milton, of which parts were sold separately. Cf. A descriptive catalogue of the Milton collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, no. 214, p. 274.

Illustrations for bks. 1 to 3 and 5 to 12 by Jean Baptist Melina; illustration for bk. 4 by Bernard Lens, the elder. Not all are signed. Cf. M.R. Pointon, Milton and English art. Manchester, 1970, p. 3-16.

Errors in pagination: 219-[220] repeated.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Explanatory notes [by Patrick Hume] wanting.

With: Paradise regain'd : a poem in IV books : to which is added Samson Agonistes / the author John Milton. London : printed for R.E. and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, 1688. -- Poems upon several occasions, compos'd at several times / by Mr. John Milton. The third edition. London : printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695.

Cited in:

Wing M2151

OCLC:

67536752