Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton D.D.
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- Imprint
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Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1759.
- Publication year
- 1759-1759
- ESTC No.
- T133905
- Grub Street ID
- 182612
- Description
- [8],lxxii,416p. ; 4⁰
- Note
- There is no punctuation after Birmingham in the imprint.
Variant titlepage; in some copies there is a colon after "Birmingham" in the imprint.
"There are usually no plates, but occasionally a frontispiece (signed Miller) and set of twelve plates (signed Hayman and Miller) are found, .. They were supplied by Tonson, who distributed several versions of these designs" (Gaskell).
Pp. i-lxxii contain 'Life of Milton'.