PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
MILTON'S PARADISE LOST,
IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH;
OR,
MILTON'S PARADISE LOST,
TRANSLATED INTO ITALIAN BLANK VERSE,

WITH ORIGINAL NOTES,

By FELIX MARIOTTINI,

An Italian Nobleman now in London, and Fellow of several Foreign Academies.

Meffirs. MOLINI and MATHEWS respectfully inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, that they intend to publish this new and complete Edition of a Work which needs not any recommendation to Englishmen or Foreigners.

It will contain all that is to be found in that of Bishop NEWTON; that is, the Text of the Poem, the Life of MILTON, the Critique of ADDISON, and the Notes of the English Commentators.—It will likewise contain the Translation into Italian blank Verse, Observations on the Life of MILTON, and on the Critique of ADDISON, and original Notes on each Book of the Poem, in English and Italian.

It is intended to be comprised in Five Volumes Octavo, each Volume to be Eight Shillings in Boards; and, to accommodate those who wish to have a splendid Edition, it is purposed to print a few Copies on an extra Wove Royal Paper, hot-pressed, at Twelve Shillings per Volume in boards. The Money to be paid on the delivery of each Volume.

It will be completed within a year from the publication of the first Volume, which will be put to pref as soon as the Lift of Subscribers can be obtained from Italy.

The Names of the Subscribers will be printed at the end of the last volume.

Subscribers' Names are received by Mr. MOLINI, No. 14, Hanover Street; Mr. MATHEWS, No. 18, and Mr. ELMSLEY, No. 87, Strand; Meffirs. EGERTON, Charing Cross; Mr. EDWARDS, Pall Mall; Mr. ROBSON, New Bond Street; Meffirs. ROBINSON, Paternofter Row, London; Meffirs. FLETCHER, and PRINCE, Oxford; Mr. MERRILL, Cambridge; Mr. GYE, Bath; Mr. BROWN, Briftol; Mr. SMITH, Sheffield; Mr. PEACOCK, York; Mr. GILLMAN, Rochester; Mr. MERCIER, Dublin; and Mr. LAING, Edinburgh.

January, 1793.