Paradise lost. . A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Measurements
322 x 203 x 30 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3227958.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade, laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type:Inboard binding, recessed supports Date of Binding: 19.1 Binder's Name: British End Leaves: Sewn double fold of plain, white, handmade, wove paper ,the outwrmost leaf torn out(?) and the next leaf pasted toteh board Structure: French Edges: plain cut, not decorated, polished Spine Lining: moferate round, quadrant joints, contunous paper inings End Bands: stuck-on endband, striped bookcloth folded over a round core. Bookmark: None Boards: 4mm rope fibre couched-laminate board Covering: Half brown tanne calf, polished with a stone marbled paper on the side Tooling Spine: divided into 6 panels by gold- and blind-tooled rolls with a gold-tooled title label in panel 2. Tooling Sides: None Furniture: Enclosure: Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[4],336p., [13] leaves of plates . ill.., port.. . fol... 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: 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: 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)