In his translation of PL, William Hog uses the original ten-book version with the arguments printed together preceding the poem; Hog's translations of PL, PR, and SA are the first Latin translations of Milton's three major poems. It was this work that William Lauder used so extensively in his notorious attempt to prove Milton a plagiarist. (See Lauder and commentary there with Eighteenth-century Miltoniana.) This is the first William Hog translation. [Wickenheiser]. ESTC R4118; Wing M2158; Coleridge 184; Shawcross 352; Wickenheiser 1759.

Octavo, xxxvi, 510 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in early full mottled calf with paneled spine but lacking original spine label. Some wear and rubbing to boards and cracking to hinges. Ink spots and two ink words to A8. "Paradisum amissum," "Paradisum recuperatum," and "Samsonem Agonisten" each have separately dated title pages. Pagination and register are continuous.

JR Consignment. Shelved in Case 7.