Notes upon the twelve books of Paradise Lost
Subtitle: collected from the Spectator
By: written by Mr. Addison
Contributors: Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head, over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand
Published: 1719
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry; History and criticism; Aeneis (Virgil); Iliad (Homer); Paradise lost (Milton, John)
Notes: Examines Paradise Lost "by the rules of epic poetry, and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Æneid, in the Beauties which are essential to that Kind of Writing" -- Page 4.

Signatures: A-F¹² G²

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T89182

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.