Accession number
PML 19262
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 1668.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
First edition, with the third title page.
Portrait inserted as frontispiece.
Collation - Title lf, verso blank; Text, in ten "Books", A[superscript]1-Vv[superscript]2 in 4s. 12[superscript]o.
For more recent discussion of title pages and preliminaries, see Hugh Amory, "Things unattempted yet: a bibliography of the first edition of Paradise Lost," Book Collector, 32 (1983), 41-66.
Portrait inserted as frontispiece.
Collation - Title lf, verso blank; Text, in ten "Books", A[superscript]1-Vv[superscript]2 in 4s. 12[superscript]o.
For more recent discussion of title pages and preliminaries, see Hugh Amory, "Things unattempted yet: a bibliography of the first edition of Paradise Lost," Book Collector, 32 (1983), 41-66.
Description
[340] p. ; 19 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary copy of Milton's Cambridge University registration (leaf A1v).
Provenance
John Bourne, gift inscription to William Mason: "Gulielmo Masono S. D. D. Johannes Bournius An: 1744" (leaf A1r); Joseph Frank Payne (1840-1910), his sale, Sotheby's London, 30 Jan. 1912, lot 428 for £44.0.?; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, March 1912.
Binding
Calf.
Classification
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