Paradise lost. : A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton.

Paradise lost. : A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton.

The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures.

London : Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street, MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]

[4], 219, [1], 219-250, 151-196, 297-343, [7] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; (fol.)

In verse.

Frontis. portrait (plate) of the author signed: R. White sculp:

Some plates signed by M. Burghers and Peter Paul Bouche.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

One of three imprint variants of this edition.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), M2147
Coleridge, K.A. Catalogue of the Milton collection in the Turnbull Library, 93b
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 720
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R15589

Great Britain -- England -- London.

M2147

Dobell. Marbled edges. Provenance: signed "J. Tyrwhitt" (possibly Sir John Tyrwhitt, 5th Bart. (?1663-1741) of Stainfield, Lincs., Whig M.P. for Lincoln, 1715 and 1728); from the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell, Esq. ; bookplate, signature (dated 1924) and brief MS notes of John Drinkwater; bookseller's quote tipped in