Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. The author John Milton.

People / Organizations

• John Milton (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.

Publication year

1674-1674

ESTC No.

R13351

Grub Street ID

61457

Description

[8], 333, [3] p. ; 8⁰

Note

In verse.

Many copies of this edition include a copy of the Dolle engraving of the Faithorne portrait as a frontispiece. Cf. Coleridge.

The first edition and its reissues were divided into ten books rather than the twelve found in the later editions.

Includes commendatory poems by S.B. in Latin and by Andrew Marvell in English.