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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9 months ago on July 25, 2012 at 09:49am
