Paradise lost
Subtitle: a poem in twelve books
By: the authour, John Milton.
Contributors: Lens, Bernard, 1659-1725, ill.; Medina, John Baptist, ca. 1655-1710, ill.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646, ill.; Burghers, M., ill.; White, Robert, 1645-1703, ill.; Flesher, Miles, fl. 1682-1687, printer.; Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller.; Dunn, Michael, signer.
Edition: The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures.
Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Notes: Title within double-rule border.

Signatures: [A]-B² C-Xx⁴ Yy-Zz² ²Aa².

Nos. 219-220 repeated in paging; 251-296 mispaged as 151-196.

Illustrations engraved by M. Burghers and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina and Bernard Lens, Sen.; port. engraved by Robert White.

"The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd, by subscription, the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise Lost": p. [347]-[352].

Also issued with variant imprints, having readings "for Richard Bentley" or "for Richard Bentley and Jacob Tonson"--cf. Coleridge.

Issued on ordinary paper (double inner margin measures 65 mm., predominantly with foolscap watermark) and on large paper (double inner margin measures 85 mm., with grapes, or arms of France and Navarre watermarks).

Coleridge, K.A. Turnbull Milton coll., 93b.

Pointon, M.R. Milton & English art, p. 2-15.

Wing (2nd ed.), M2147.

WSU MASC copy is the large paper issue with grapes watermarks.

WSU MASC copy signed on front free endpaper: "Michael Dunn, his Book, 1799".

WSU MASC copy has line numbers added in ink, probably by Michael Dunn, a previous owner.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-123043739.