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Paradise lost : a poem in ten books   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Simmons, Samuel, 1640-1687, printer
Thomson, Samuel, active 1657-1666, bookseller
Mortlock, Henry, bookseller
Walker, Matthias, active 1664-1672, bookseller
Boulter, Robert, active 1666-1683, bookseller
Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Pratt, W., binder
Gaffield, Thomas, former owner
Gery, G., former owner
Title
Paradise lost : a poem in ten books
Publisher
London : Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by S. Thomson at the Bishops-Head in Duck-Lane, H. Mortlock at the White Hart in Westminster Hall, M. Walker under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street, and R. Boulter at the Turks-Head in Bishopsgate Street
Description
In verse
Signatures: Áþ áþ ℗øÁþ B-2T́þ 2V℗ø
The fourth state of the title page, with 4 rows of type ornaments following author's name
A reissue of the first edition, with cancel title page and added quires ℗£A-áþ
℗£A2r is found in two states: with "The printer to the reader" in six or four lines
Title and text within double-ruled borders
Unpaginated; line numbers printed in margins by tens
Headpieces; initials
"Errata": leaf a4v
Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue
ESTC
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996)
Shawcross, J.T. Milton
Amory, H. Things unattempted yet : a bibliography of the first edition of Paradise lost (Book collector 32:1 (1983): 41-66)
Cataloged
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.177.7 bound by William Pratt in red morocco panelled in triple-ruled gilt with floral cornerpieces. All text block edges are gilt. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.309.29 bound in early, brown calfskin panelled in blind. The spine has been rebacked at the BPL in brown morocco. The gift bookplate of Thomas Gaffield is present on the front pastedown. The initials "C.G." are present on the front flyleaf. The title page recto is signed "g:gery" in an early hand. The verso of the title page is signed, "M. Ganesborough[?]". A pencil inscription on the rear pastedown reads, "J.T. Fields[?]"

Subjects: Adam (Biblical figure); Eve (Biblical figure); Bible; Fall of man
Language English
Publication date 1668
publication_date QS:P577,+1668-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
paradiselostpoem00milt_0
Notes No page assertions. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 606609273
Source
Internet Archive identifier: paradiselostpoem00milt_0
https://archive.org/download/paradiselostpoem00milt_0/paradiselostpoem00milt_0.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library
  • IA digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library

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