Tuesday, October 15, 2013

book-aesthete: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. John...





book-aesthete:



Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books.

John Milton. London: Pr. by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, 1688.


“The fourth edition, adorn’d with sculptures” — that is to say,the first illustrated appearance of Paradise Lost, as well as what Hodnett calls “the earliest serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry” — andthe first folio edition to boot — Pforzheimer noting that this is additionally the first publication of Dryden’s lines on Milton.





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