Paradise lost. . A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3227958
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],336p., [13] leaves of plates . ill.., port.. . fol... 2 copies. Copy at Hh.9.15 imperfect: wanting 3 leaves of plates (including frontispiece portrait). Copy at Hh.9.16(1) imperfect: wanting title page and following leaf of text; all other details match ESTC R42173. Bound with Milton's "Paradise regain'd" (1688) (ESTC r2091, Wing M2154, M2177). manuscript in pencil on front endpaper verso, including "6/-", "185" and "X1.1".. Provenance: Copy at Hh.9.15: pictorial bookplate: Ex libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894 [i.e. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]. manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Willm. Lockwood Skelton". Copy at Hh.9.16(1): green armorial bookplate: Mansft. de Cardonnel Lawon (mottoes "Rise and shine", "L'esperance me console") [possibly Adam de Cardonnel (d. 1820)]. Engraved pictorial bookplate: J. Cresswell. Pictorial bookplate: Ex libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894 [i.e. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)].. Binding: Copy at Hh.9.15: eighteenth-century[?] half-bound calf, with marbled paper over boards; blind and gilt roll patterns on spine, with black gilt title label. Copy at Hh.9.16(1): eighteenth-century[?] blind-panelled calf binding; blind roll on board edges; recessed cords; blind-tooled spine, with gilt title and date lettered directly onto spine. Marbled edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Milton (1608-1674) Peter Paul Bouche (b.c.1646 - fl.1697) Michael Burghers (Amsterdam 1653-1727) Robert White (London 1645 - London 1703)