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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the authour John Milton.

Accession number
PML 145564
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London : printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street, MDCLXXXVIII [1688].
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 is large paper issue.
Description
[4], 219, [1], 219-250, 151-197, 298-343, [7] pages, [13] leaves of plates : portrait, plates (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol)
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary 1/2 calf, marbled boards.
Classification
Department