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

All titles

• 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

People / Organizations

• J. Bedford ("printed by")
• J. Bedford ("sold by")
• Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (Author)

Imprint

London : printed and sold by J. Bedford, at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church Yard, and C. Sympson, in Stone-Cutter-Street, Fleet-Market, MDCCLXVII. [1767]

Added name

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Publication year

1767

ESTC No.

T134627

Grub Street ID

183250

Description

430,[18]p.,plates : port. ; 8°.

Note

Titlepage in red and black

In fact by Nicolas François 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

Will need 740 Paradise lost English prose. Not same setting as 1755 ed