This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...2A1-2B6. Select Notes, 2 B7-2E 6. Pages 1-428. Vignette plates to 1'Allegro and II Penseroso. MILTON, John.--Milton's Paradise Lost. A new edition. Adorned with plates. Vol. I. Vol. II. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; for F. J. Du Roveray. Sold by R. Dutton, B. Crosby and Co. E. Lloyd, and J. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...2A1-2B6. Select Notes, 2 B7-2E 6. Pages 1-428. Vignette plates to 1'Allegro and II Penseroso. MILTON, John.--Milton's Paradise Lost. A new edition. Adorned with plates. Vol. I. Vol. II. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; for F. J. Du Roveray. Sold by R. Dutton, B. Crosby and Co. E. Lloyd, and J. Bell. 1802. 8vo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, corner ornaments on the side, doubled with green morocco, wide dentelle border, gilt edges, by Matthews. Large-paper copy. Illustrated by Milton's portrait engraved by Wm. Sharp, two states of the plates by Bartolozzi, etc., both proofs before letters, and one of each on India paper, and eighty-seven other plates inserted, mostly proofs, and some in the various stages from engraver's etching to the finished proof, including the illustrations by Richter, Westall, etc. At the beginning is a brilliant impression of Milton's portrait by Caroline Watson, after Cooper's miniature, proof before letters. Collation: I. Title, The Verse, two leaves. Text, Books I.-VI., B1-S4 in eights. Pages 1-264. II. Title, one leaf. Books VII.-XII., B1-R5. Pages 1-250. MILTON, John.--Paradise Lost. 1802. 8vo, two volumes, blue levant morocco, filleted back, side borders, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery. Another large-paper copy, uncut, with the original covers bound in. Collation: The same as the preceding copy. MILTON, John.--Paradise Lost. A Poem, in twelve books. The author, John Milton. London: printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly; by C. Whittingham, Chiswick. MDCCCXXI. i2mo, two volumes in one, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Joly. Large-paper copy, with fourteen engravings (proofs), from the designs of Stothard and Westall. Collation: I. Half-title, A1 (verso blank). ...
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