Paradise lost
Subtitle: a poem, in twelve books
By: The author John Milton
Publisher: Printed for J. and H. Richter, Great Newport-street, by T. Spilsbury and son, Snow-Hill.
Published: 1794
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Notes: Signed & paged continuously.

Each pt. has cover-title: ... No i[-xii] of Milton's Paradise lost. With twenty-four engravings from the most interesting passages in the poem, and a portrait of the author; from the designs of Henry Richter. The prints will be engraved by John Richter, sen. ... The work to be published in monthly numbers, in royal quarto, price five shillings each, upon a wove paper, of the finest texture, and hot-pressed. The first number to be published in March, 1794, and one each succeeding month, till the work is concluded ... The whole to be completed in twelve numbers ...

The monthly schedule seems not to have been adhered to; the plates and engraved illustrations are dated from March 1794 to June 1796; the frontispiece portrait of Milton, after an original by William Faithorne, is dated June 1796.

"Directions to the binder": slip inserted before t.-p. in pt. 1.

Collected issues of the 12 pts. occur in both 1 and 2 volumes.