Accession number
PML 964
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ... and by Robert Boulter ... and Matthias Walker ..., 1667.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan.
Notes
Printer's name from Pforzheimer
First edition.
The second of six title page variants. In this state the line "By JOHN MILTON." is in much smaller type than the line below.
With 8 additional preliminary leaves, A⁴, a⁴ followed by text, A-2T⁴ 2V². Errata on leaf a4 verso.
End of Book III has the irregularities described as belonging to first issue.
For details on states of title page and preliminaries see The Library" ser. 4, XXII: 34-66.
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.
First edition.
The second of six title page variants. In this state the line "By JOHN MILTON." is in much smaller type than the line below.
With 8 additional preliminary leaves, A⁴, a⁴ followed by text, A-2T⁴ 2V². Errata on leaf a4 verso.
End of Book III has the irregularities described as belonging to first issue.
For details on states of title page and preliminaries see The Library" ser. 4, XXII: 34-66.
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
[344] p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional contemporary annotations in ink.
Provenance
H. F. Sewall (pencil on fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
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Department