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

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• John Milton (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674. The second edition revised and augmented by the same author.; ..

Added name

S. B.; Dolle, William, active 1670-1680, engraver.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, artist.; Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 Early works to 1800.

Publication year

1674

ESTC No.

R13351

Grub Street ID

61457

Description

[8], 333, [3] p. ; 8°

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

The last leaf is blank.