Paradise regain'd
Subtitle: a poem in IV books : to which are added Samson Agonistes & poems both English and Latin compos'd on several occasions
By: the author, John Milton
Contributors: Milton, John, 1608-1674; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922, printer; Walker, Emery, 1851-1933, printer; Mason, J. H. (John Henry), 1875-1951, compositor; Jenkins, W. (William), compositor; Gage-Cole, Harry, 1877-1943; Doves Press; Doves Bindery; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: [The Doves Press, No. 1 The Terrace]; [Printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press]
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Hammersmith [London, England}]
Language: eng; lat; grc
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Fall of man; Poetry
Other titles: Paradise regain'd :; Paradise regain'd :
Work titles: Paradise regained
Notes: "Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, & finished June 1905. Compositors: J.H. Mason, W Jenkins. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole, J. Ryan, Albert Lewis. The Greek type used in this edition was designed by Selwyn Image, and for its use the Printers are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Macmillan and Co. Limited. Sold at the Doves Press."--Colophon.

"Paradise regain'd" and "Samson Agonistes" reprinted from the first edition published by the author in 1671. The poems are from the 1645 text with added English poems from the 1673 edition, excepting the metrical versions of the Psalms and the four sonnets then unpublished. Slight corrections made and an alteration of the sonnet arrangement. Cf. "Notice", p. 5 and Stevens, D.H. Reference guide to Milton from 1800 to the present day.

300 copies on paper and 25 on vellum. Cf. Tomkinson, Bibl. of modern presses, p. 54.

First leaf blank except for signature letter "a"

Printer statement from colophon.

Signatures: a-x⁸ y⁴ (a3 signed a1).

Chapter headings and initials in red.

NUC pre-1956, NM0606762

Stevens, D.H. Milton, 1120

British Library. Modern Brit. and Am. private presses, p. 56

Ransom, W. Private presses, p. 251, no. 7

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels

Includes Latin and Greek sections.