Paradise Lost. a poem in twelve books

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Title: Paradise Lost. a poem in twelve books
Creator: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Contributor: Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.
Published / Created: 1678.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-Street
Description: BEIN Osborn pb9: Imperfect: front. wanting; p. 3-4 wanting; some leaves bled at top; p. 329-331 mutilated; damp-stained. Autographed and heavily annotated by Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester.
BEIN 1987 652 Copy 1-2: Both copies with: Paradise regain'd ... / the author John Milton. London : Printed for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet-Street, near Temple-Bar, 1680. Copy 2: Autographs of Thomas Eccles, John Sanford, Anne Read, and Elihu Yale.
BEIN 2006 490: 17 cm. Imperfect: Plate not present; trimmed at top edge, with very slight loss of text. Autograph: I. Watts, 170?. Autograph: Sam'l Sheafe, Coleman Str't, Lond. Bookplate: Sam'l Sheafe. Ms. annotations in hand of Isaac Watts. Dealer's description affixed to preliminary leaf.
Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸.
Pages [1]-[5] at end blank.
Many copies of this edition include a copy of the Dolle engraving of the Faithorne portrait as a frontispiece. Cf. ESTC.
Extent: [8], 331, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : 18cm. (8vo)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Digitization Note: Pages [1]-[5] at end blank.
Edition: The third edition, revised and augmented by the same author.
Language: English

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