Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton. The sixth edition, with sculptures. To which is added, explanatory notes upon each book, and a table to the poem, never before printed.
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- Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton. The sixth edition, with sculptures. To which is added, explanatory notes upon each book, and a table to the poem, never before printed.
- Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost
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London: printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-street, M DC XC V. [1695]
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- 1695-1695
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- R226441
- Grub Street ID
- 99463
- Description
- [4], 219, [1], 219-343, [3]; [2], 321, [1]; [2], 66; [6], 57, [1]; [4], 9, [2], 10-11, [2], 12-60 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 2⁰
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- Frontispiece portrait of the author by William Faithorne (plate) signed: R White sculp:.
Most of the 12 illustrations for Paradise lost are engraved by Michael Burghers or Peter Paul Bouche.
According to K.A. Coleridge, p. 274, "Jacob Tonson issued two collections in 1695, parts of which are in large part the same, but with different arrangements". The first collection has a general title page with title "The poetical works of Mr. John Milton". The second collection (the work being catalogued here) lacks general title page and always contains the 1695 editions of the works included, i.e. "Paradise lost", Hume's "Annotations", "Paradise regain'd" [mis-dated 1715], "Samson Agonistes", and "Poems upon several occasions" (usually in that order, though Hume's "Annotations" is sometimes be bound at the end). Coleridge notes that the second collection "is not always complete The parts seem to have been sold separately and to have been bound up in various ways".
Each part has separate dated title page each dated 1695 ("Paradise regain'd", mis-dated 1715 for 1695), pagination, and register.