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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the authour John Milton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- 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
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