Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton D.D.
Milton, John,1608-1674.
Newton, Thomas,1704-1782.
Birmingham : printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London,
1759.
Pp. i-lxxii contain 'Life of Milton'.
Pp. 32, 102, 142, 178, 214, 312 and 390 are blank.
"There are usually no plates, but occasionally a frontispiece (signed Miller) and set of twelve plates (signed Hayman and Miller) are found, .. They were supplied by Tonson, who distributed several versions of these designs" (Gaskell).
There is no punctuation after Birmingham in the imprint.
Variant titlepage; in some copies there is a colon after "Birmingham" in the imprint.
Gaskell 6
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