Paradise lost. A poem written in ten books by John Milton. Licensed and entred according to order.

In verse.

Printer's name from Shawcross.

Signatures: pi² A-2T⁴ 2V².

The first leaf is blank.

The earliest of six title-page states. In this state the line "By JOHN MILTON." is in the same size of type as the line below.

Some copies have seven additional preliminary leaves, ¹A⁴ (-A1) a⁴. These were probably printed the following year and were either added by the original owners after their purchase of the text, or are present as later sophistications. For details on states of title page and preliminaries, see "The Library", ser. 4, XXII: 34-66.

English short title catalogue, R9505

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), M2136

Pforzheimer, 716

Shawcross, J. Milton, 291

Coleridge, K.A. Milton , 90a

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 391:11).

Alexander Turnbull Library copy 1 exhibited ; REng MIL 1667 Para : Collecting Pandemonium: John Milton at the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1 December 2008 - 14 March 2009

Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 1. Library's copy has 1st state t.p. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Binding: brown goatskin, gold tooled edges, turn-ins and spine, gilt text edges. Binder's stamp on upper pastedown: Bound by J. Clarke. Provenance: oval armorial bookplate in gold with motto 'Nec tempere nec timide, for John Gott, Bishop of Truro, inscription on fly-leaf signed by Gott; bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull (bookseller's inscription on lower pastedown : B. Quaritch, R.S. Ferguson, 26, iii, 1908). Acc. 401295.

Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 2. Library's copy has 2nd state t.p. with "John Milton" in smaller type. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Binding: red goatskin, gold tooled in panel design with centre piece decoration, gold tooled spine, edges and turn-ins, binder's stamp in gold on front turn-in: Bound by Riviere & Son. Provenance: bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull in July 1898 from Bernard Quaritch, c.f. Alexander Turnbull 'Aquisition Book' [1898-1902], no. 387, ATL MSX-8822. Acc. 401296.