Lot 44
  • 44

Milton, John.

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... The Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author. S. Simmons, 1678
8vo (164 x 102mm.),  third edition,  engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary or near contemporary sheep, further inscriptions on notes on the endpapers, soiled, early leaves repaired at inner margin and somewhat stained with some short tears, headlines occasionally cut close, binding slightly worn and partially split at head of spine

Provenance

John Whitlam, his ownership signature dated 1792;  Samuel Richardson, his ownership signature dated 1804 (both these on upper paste-down)

Literature

Coleridge 92; Wing M2145 

Condition

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