Accession number
PML 963
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldergate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 1667.
Notes
Printer's name from Shawcross.
First edition.
Earliest of six title page states: the line "By JOHN MILTON." is the same size of type as the line below.
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.
Collation: quarto. pi² A-2T⁴ 2V².
Added engraved portrait of Milton by William Dolle after William Faithorne's painting tipped in as frontispiece inserted at a later date.
First edition.
Earliest of six title page states: the line "By JOHN MILTON." is the same size of type as the line below.
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.
Collation: quarto. pi² A-2T⁴ 2V².
Added engraved portrait of Milton by William Dolle after William Faithorne's painting tipped in as frontispiece inserted at a later date.
Description
[344] p. ; 18 cm
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Black morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, by Antoine Chastelen, 15 Newman Street.
Classification
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Department