Paradise lost, a poem
By: the author John Milton
Publisher: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis
Published: 1770
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Notes: Title vignette: author's port.

Published from the text of Dr. Thomas Newton.

Gfit; Dudley L. Pickman; 1824; 14486.7.14*;

Presented to Phillis Wheatley by Brook Watson (later Lord Mayor of London), in 1773; used to pay off her husband's debts at her death; the puchaser, Dudley Pickman of Salem, presented it to Harvard in 1824 (inscribed); armorial bookplate of Brook Watson.

18thc./early 19th c. letterpress bookplate of Auchincruive.

18thc./early 19th c. armorial bookplate of Harry Lee.

Bound in contemporary calf; spine broken; text divided into three parts and housed in protective cloth case.

In contemporary Scottish calf, with gilt and blind panelling and gilt center geometric design of square and diamond overlays; both boards detached; in CMI case.

In contemporary gilt red morocco with a crest with a bishop's mitre and the initials "WW" (Wykeham?) on front board.