Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes, from the learned Raymond de St. Maur, Wherein The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the Names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, render'd easy and intelligible. Also The Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult Passages cleared of their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the Standard of the English Idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with fourteen copper plates

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• Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes, from the learned Raymond de St. Maur, Wherein The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the Names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, render'd easy and intelligible. Also The Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult Passages cleared of their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the Standard of the English Idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with fourteen copper plates
• Paradis perdu. English
• Paradise lost. English prose.

People / Organizations

• Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for F. Richards, in Bell Savage Yard, Ludgate-Hill; and sold by all booksellers and news carriers in town and country, [1767?]

Added name

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Publication year

1767

ESTC No.

T134626

Grub Street ID

183249

Description

430,[18]p.,plate : port. ; 8°.

Note

Titlepage in red and black

A reissue of the 1767 edition, printed and sold by J. Bedford, and C. Sympson, with a different titlepage

In fact by Nicolas Francois Dupré de Saint-Maur

Translated and paraphrased by George Smith Green

This prose version was originally published in French as 'Paradis perdu de Milton'

With an index.

Uncontrolled note

May be a cancel titlepage