Accession number
PML 36799
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently, at the Post-Office in Russell-street, and Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street, MDCLXXXVIII [1688].
Credit line
Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941.
Notes
Mispagination: pages 251-296 misnumbered 151-196; 219-220 repeated in paging (as usual).
Engravings by M. Burghers and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, Bernard Lens, and Henry Aldrich (see Shawcross); frontispiece port. engraved by Robert White.
"The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd, by subscription, the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise lost"--P. [347]-[352].
Also issued with variant imprints (see Shawcross).
Signatures: [A]-B² C-2X⁴ 2Y-2Z² 2A².
Morgan copy with imprint date on binding misdated as 1788.
Engravings by M. Burghers and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, Bernard Lens, and Henry Aldrich (see Shawcross); frontispiece port. engraved by Robert White.
"The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd, by subscription, the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise lost"--P. [347]-[352].
Also issued with variant imprints (see Shawcross).
Signatures: [A]-B² C-2X⁴ 2Y-2Z² 2A².
Morgan copy with imprint date on binding misdated as 1788.
Description
[4], 219, [1], 219-250, 151-197, 298-343, [7] pages, [13] leaves of plates : portrait, plates (engravings) ; 32 cm (fol)
Provenance
Francis Leigh, signature (title page).
Binding
Brown morocco, gold-tooled with dentelles, by Blackwell.
Classification
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