Milton, John. Paradise lost· : A poem in twelve books. The author John Milton

ESTC number: R19396
Folger bibliographic ID: 138171
Shawcross, J. Milton: 325
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: 719
Coleridge, K.A. Catalogue of the Milton collection in the Turnbull Library: 92
Wing number: M2145
Folger call number: M2145
Folger holdings ID: 130251

Edition

The third edition. Revised and augmented by the same author

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

In verse Many copies of this edition include a copy of the Dolle engraving of the Faithorne portrait as a frontispiece. Cf. Coleridge Includes commendatory poems by S.B. in Latin and by Andrew Marvell in English Signatures: A⁴, B-Y⁸ The last two leaves are blank

Item information about Folger M2145

140384. Polished calf with gilt triple fillet border, gilt tooled spine panels and edges of boards, and gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges stained yellow. Bookseller's catalogue entry for this copy tipped to front free endpaper. Lacking frontis. port. and two final blanks. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "E. D."

Extended title: Paradise lost· : A poem in twelve books. The author John Milton

Fall of man

author: Milton, John, 1608-1674
associated with: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
artist: Faithorne, William, 1616-1691
printmaker: Dolle, William, active 1670-1680
associated with: S. B