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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books
- Title
- Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the authour John Milton.
- Author
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Publication
- London : Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KC+ 1695 85-155a | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- [4], 343 [i.e. 345], [3] p., [1], 12 leaves of plates : ill., port.; 31 cm. (fol.)
- Note
- Issued also as part of Tonson's 1695 collection comprising Paradise lost, Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes, Poems upon several occasions and Annotations upon Milton's Paradise lost (by Patrick Hume); usually with general t.p. reading: The poetical works of Mr. John Milton ... Cf. Coleridge, p. 274.
- Does not include the "explanatory notes" referred to in edition statement, i.e. Hume's Annotations (issued separately or as part of the 1695 collection).
- Signatures: [A]²B²C-2Y⁴.
- Error in pagination: nos. 219-[220] repeated as 219-220.
- Illustrations: Full-page engravings to each book by M. Burghers after J.B. Medina, except bk. 4: P.P. Bouche after Bernard Lens the elder; cf. Milton & English art / Marcia R. Pointon. 1970, p. 1-16. Frontispiece port. of Milton by R. White.
- Includes index ("The table": [3] p. at end).
- Indexed In (note)
- Coleridge, K.A. Milton collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
- Wing
- Call Number
- *KC+ 1695 85-155a
- OCLC
- NYPG85-B47165
- Author
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Title
- Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the authour John Milton.
- Imprint
- London : Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695.
- Edition
- The sixth edition, with sculptures, to which is added, explanatory notes upon each book and a table to the poem, never before printed.
- Indexed In:
- Coleridge, K.A. Milton collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, 214 (PL)Wing M2151
- Local Note
- With: Paradise regain'd : a poem, in IV books ; to which is added, Samson Agonistes / the author, John Milton. London : Printed for R.E. and are to be sold by John Whitlock ..., MDCCXV [i.e. 1695]. Probably issued together; cf. above.Provenance: Richard Triplett (Latin inscription); Joan Whitney (afterwards Payson) (bookplate).
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- Added Author
- Medina, John Baptist, Sir, 1659?-1710?Lens, Bernard, 1659-1725.Burghers, Michael, active 1676-1723.Bouche, Peter Paul, approximately 1646-
- Research Call Number
- *KC+ 1695 85-155a