Paradise lost
Subtitle: a poem in twelve books
By: the author John Milton
Edition: The second edition / revised and augmented by the same author.
Publisher: Printed by S. Simmons
Published: 1674
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Notes: Signatures: A⁴, B-Y⁸ (Y8 blank, not present).

Frontispiece portrait engr. by William Dolle after William Faithorne, dated 1671; it is sometimes claimed that this engraving was first published in Milton's Artis logicae plenior institutio (1672), & it is often found in copies of that work, but the plate is too large to have been designed for it.

Francis Blackburne, in his Memoirs of Thomas Hollis (1780), p. *584*, records an edition in twelve books dated 1672, probably a ghost, inferred from the date of the portrait.

Also reissued with t.p. dated 1675; see the Univ. of Illinois exhibition catalogue, Collection of first editions of Milton's works (1953), item 53.

Gift; Thomas Hollis; n.d. 14486.3 (A).

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library, with a note in his hand on the front fly-leaf.

Bound in mottled calf, stamped in gilt with his ornament on covers; red morocco label on spine.

Imperfect: too closely trimmed at top, affecting running-titles; some page-numbers mutilated; frontispiece portrait mounted.
Table of contents: title: "In Paradisum amissam [!] summi poetae Johannis Miltoni," signed S[amuel]. B[arrow]., M.D. & "On Paradise lost," signed A[ndrew]. M[arvell].: prelim. leaves 2-3.