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Milton, John
PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS
PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS
Author: Milton, John
Edition: Third Edition
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: S. Simmons
Publication Date: 1678

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Octavo, 331 pages. In Very Good condition. Newly rebound in one-quarter brown leather with gilt lettering to paneled spine (matching marbled boards and endpapers). Binder's mark for the Temple Bindery with facsimile frontispiece bound in. Text blocked trimmed along the top edge occasionally cutting slightly into the title with wide margins on fore and lower edge. 'Charles Somerscales’ written in ink on title page.

A¹, A³, A?, B-X?, Y?. The last two leaves are blank but called for in the signatures. This copy is lacking Y?. Lacking leaf A², the commendatory poem entitled "In Paradisum amissam summi poetae Johannis Miltoni" by S.B. in Latin. Present are A¹, the title page, A³, with "On Paradise lost" by Andrew Marvell in English, and A?, "The Verse."; page number 240 misprinted as 140, text correct.

The following pages have the line numbers written in ink in the margins, in series of 5: 2-247. Some of those pages have the ink faded and barely visible. JG Consignment. Shelved in Case 0.
Item: 1292278
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