Paradise lost. [electronic resource] : A poem written in ten books by John Milton. Licensed and entred according to order.

Archived by the National Library of New Zealand.

Title from TIFF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 17, 2011).

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).

Electronic reproduction. : Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Reproduction of Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Electronic reproduction of Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Books and Fine Printing copy. Library's copy has 1st state t.p. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Binding of original print version: brown goatskin, gold tooled edges, turn-ins and spine, gilt text edges. Binder's stamp on upper pastedown: Bound by J. Clarke. Provenance of original print version: 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).