Saa4.8.04
Paradise lost. A poem in ten books. The author John Milton.
London : Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder at the Angel in Little Brittain., 1669.
[356] p. ; 19cm. (4to)
Signatures: A⁴(±A1) a⁴; ²A-2T⁴ 2V².
The fifth state of the title page (from ESTC).
Text in double rules; head and tail-pieces; initials; line numbers.
Title page in double rules.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), M2142
ESTC, R13406
Grolier. Wither to Prior, 603
Coleridge, K.A. Catalogue of the Milton collection in the Turnbull Library, 90e
Shawcross, J. Milton, 302
Pforzheimer, 718
18th century blue rolled morocco; gold-tooled single fillet border; gold tooled dash roll compartments and letters on spine; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Previously Ci.2.1.5, Di.12.4 and S.186.Misc.09.
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.
Underlinings (possibly seventeenth or early eighteenth century) in ink throughout.
Fall of man Poetry Early works to 1800.
Simmons, Samuel, 1640 - 1687 printer.
Helder, Thomas, active 1662 - 1683 bookseller.
England London.
B16194