Author: Milton, John (1608-1674); Miles Flesher (Printer); Jacob Tonson (Bookseller); Peter Paul Bouche (Engraver), Michael Burghers (Engraver); Robert White (Engraver), Bernard Lens (Illustrator); John Baptiste de Medina (Illustrator); William Faithorne (Artist)
Title: Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Fourth Edition. Adorn'd with Sculptures. [First Illustrated Edition]
Description: London: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street. Folio. 23 x 37cm. Contemporary calf cover with moonscape mottling and new goatskin spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. [4], 219, [1], 219-250, 151-196, [mispagination but complete] 297-343, [7] pages, [13] leaves of plates. Lacking the frontispiece..Condition report: pages with light toning and foxing, marginalia, occasional stain or soiling, occasional small losses or chips not impacting text; damp staining throughout at upper half, small wormhole that runs through most of volume with additional tiny wormholes at inner and outer margin, small losses at margins, small loss in 2L1, Book II plate cut short at outer margin, several pages partially detached; lacking portrait frontispiece, with (2) additional pages of manuscript... Twelve full-page engraved illustrations, one for each book. Ten are signed by Michael Burghers (or Burghese), one of the subscribers; these are from designs of Medina .. The fourth is by P[eter].P[aul]. Bouche from the design of B. Lens Sr. The eighth plate .. is anonymous."--Pforzheimer, p. 730 "The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd, by subscription, the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise Lost" (Zz2r-²Aa2v)..Wickenheiser p. 159; ESTC 15589; USTC 3113387Wickenheiser p. 159; ESTC 15589; USTC 3113387; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 228722671. .

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