Paradise lost. A poem in ten books. The author J.M. Licensed and entred according to order

People / Organizations

• John Milton (Author)

Imprint

London : printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 1668.

Publication year

1668

ESTC No.

R13459

Grub Street ID

61559

Description

[344] p. ; 4°.

Note

In verse

Printer's name from Shawcross

Signatures: pi]2] A-2T]4] 2V]2

The first leaf is blank

The third state of the title page. Variant: lacking period after "books"

Some copies have seven additional preliminary leaves, ]1A]4] (-A1) a]4. These were probably printed later in the year and were either added by the original owners after their purchase of the text, or are present as later sophistications. For details on states of title page and preliminaries see "The Library", ser. 4, XXII: 34-66.