The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide :
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
An edition of Paradise Lost
(1667)
Paradise lost
a poem in twelve books
The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures.
by John Milton
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
Publish Date
1688
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Printed by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street
Language
English
Pages
345
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Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books, Essays on the 1667 First Edition (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)
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Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books
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Edition Notes
Title within double-rule border.
Signatures: [A]-B² C-Xx⁴ Yy-Zz² ²Aa².
Nos. 219-220 repeated in paging; 251-296 mispaged as 151-196.
Illustrations engraved by M. Burghers and P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina and Bernard Lens, Sen.; port. engraved by Robert White.
"The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd, by subscription, the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise Lost": p. [347]-[352].
Also issued with variant imprints, having readings "for Richard Bentley" or "for Richard Bentley and Jacob Tonson"--cf. Coleridge.
Issued on ordinary paper (double inner margin measures 65 mm., predominantly with foolscap watermark) and on large paper (double inner margin measures 85 mm., with grapes, or arms of France and Navarre watermarks).
Coleridge, K.A. Turnbull Milton coll., 93b.
Pointon, M.R. Milton & English art, p. 2-15.
Wing (2nd ed.), M2147.
WSU MASC copy is the large paper issue with grapes watermarks.
WSU MASC copy signed on front free endpaper: "Michael Dunn, his Book, 1799".
WSU MASC copy has line numbers added in ink, probably by Michael Dunn, a previous owner.
WSU MASC copy is: 002-123043739.
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