Shelfmark
Saa4.8.04
Author
Title
Paradise lost. A poem in ten books. The author John Milton.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder at the Angel in Little Brittain., 1669.
Physical description
[356] p. ; 19cm. (4to)
Note
Signatures: A⁴(±A1) a⁴; ²A-2T⁴ 2V².
Note
The fifth state of the title page (from ESTC).
Note
Text in double rules; head and tail-pieces; initials; line numbers.
Note
Title page in double rules.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), M2142
Citation/references note
ESTC, R13406
Citation/references note
Grolier. Wither to Prior, 603
Citation/references note
Coleridge, K.A. Catalogue of the Milton collection in the Turnbull Library, 90e
Citation/references note
Shawcross, J. Milton, 302
Citation/references note
Pforzheimer, 718
Binding
18th century blue rolled morocco; gold-tooled single fillet border; gold tooled dash roll compartments and letters on spine; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Copy-specific note
Previously Ci.2.1.5, Di.12.4 and S.186.Misc.09.
Copy-specific note
Loose pages from Sotheran catalogue, with entries for editions and issues of Milton's "Paradise Lost". Also photographs of the first four title-pages of Paradise Lost.
Copy-specific note
Underlinings (possibly seventeenth or early eighteenth century) in ink throughout.
Subject
Fall of man Poetry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Simmons, Samuel, 1640 - 1687 printer.
Added entry--name
Helder, Thomas, active 1662 - 1683 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B16194