Milton JohnBiblio.com
MILTON JohnBiblio.com
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. To which is prefixed The Life of Milton and a curious Preface by the Editor. SPECTACULARLY CLEAN CRISP COPY OF A SCARCE MILTON
1788Best.-Nr. 38595Printed for J Lackington No. 46 Chiswell Street Moorfields 1788. 12mo. on laid paper with engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved plates; contemporary calf expertly rebacked in calf to style original red leather label partially legible laid down a remarkably bright clean crisp copy. The frontispiece is Phinn's medallion portrait of the author first published in Donaldson's edition of the Poetical Works in 1772. The plates also by Phinn are placed to head books IV VIII and IX. This edition includes in addition to the poem the Preface by Lackington the Life by Newton augmented with extracts from Toland and Birch Barrow's 'In Paradisum Amissam' Marvell's 'On Paradise Lost' a description of the verse and full index. This edition is selected for comment by Professor John T. Shawcross in his address celebrating the acquisition of the Robert J. Wickenheiser collection of Miltoniana by the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina 2006 together with an even more elusive companion volume. EXTREMELY SCARCE. ESTC N32815. Not recorded by NCBEL. COPAC lists copies only at Auckland BL and Harvard. Printed for J Lackington, No. 46 Chiswell Street, Moorfields, hardcover
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