Paradise lost. . A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. The fourth edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, ...
John Milton (1608-1674)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3153607.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2 . ill.. (plates), port. 8vo. Provenance: Small eighteenth-century (?) bookplate on the back of title-pages of vols. 1 and 2 taped over. Note: Hand-written ink note on [3rd] leaf of preface in vol. 1 reads “Falconer Esq." Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf binding with gold-tooled spine. Remnants of spine labels for title and volume number.
Makers and roles
John Milton (1608-1674) Thomas Newton (1704-1782), Bishop of Bristol