Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton D.D.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Category
Books
Date
1758
Materials
Place of origin
Birmingham
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3002232
Summary
Bibliographic description
[30], 416p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7561. With leaf A1 (blank); pagination thus: [32], 416 p. Includes "The life of Milton" (lxix, [1] p., sigs. a-h4 i3) inserted between sigs. b8 and c1; it was originally part of Baskerville's companion volume of 'Paradise regain'd'. Shelved and uniform as a set with Baskerville's 'Paradise regain'd' (1758). Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate (not listed in Franks): arms of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793) and his second wife Caroline Conolly (ca. 1755-1817), m. 1770, with Buck and Talbot supporters, and earl's coronet. Subscriber's copy: 'Earl of Buckinghamshire' included in list of subscribers [i.e. John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full brown and red mottled calf (some delamination); sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; light and dark staining on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on reddish brown sheepskin[?] label on spine. Red burnished textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Milton (1608-1674), author Thomas Newton (1704-1782), author John Baskerville (1706-1775), printer