Paradise lost
Subtitle: a poem in twelve books
By: the authour John Milton
Contributors: Bentley, Richard, printer; Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, printer; Flesher, Miles, printer; Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver; Lens, Bernard, 1659-1725, illustrator; Medina, John Baptist, approximately 1655-1710, illustrator; Aldrich, Henry, 1648-1710, illustrator; Bouche, Peter Paul, approximately 1646- engraver; Burghers, M., engraver
Edition: The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures.
Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson ...
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: 1688
Notes: 1st illustrated ed.

Mispagination: pages 251-296 misnumbered 151-196; 219-220 repeated in paging (as usual).

Engravings by M. Burghers and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, Bernard Lens, and Henry Aldrich (see Shawcross); frontispiece 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"--Page [347]-[352].

Also issued with variant imprints (see Shawcross).

Large paper issue.

Signatures: [A]-B² C-2X⁴ 2Y-2Z² 2A².

Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England, p. 3

Shawcross, J.T. Milton, 347

Wing (2nd ed.) M2147

ESTC (RLIN) R15589

Baker, C.H.C. Some illustrators of Milton's Paradise lost. (Library, 5th ser., 3 (1948):1-8), p. 8 (list of plates)

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Contemp. 1/2 calf, marbled boards.