books. The author J. Milton. (The
argument. The verse.) London, 1668, 4to.
The same edition as the preceding, with a new title-page, and with
the addition of the argument.
---- Paradise Lost. A poem in ten books. The author John Milton. London,
1669, 4to.
The same edition as the two preceding, with a new title-page and
some slight alterations in the text. There is another copy in the
British Museum which differs slightly. It has also the title-page
dated 1668, and Marvell's commendatory verses in MS.
---- Paradise Lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton.
Second edition, revised and augmented by the same author. London,
1674, 8vo.
To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and
Marvell. In another copy in the British Museum conjectural
emendations from the quarto edition, 1749, and the octavo
edition, 1674, corrected by the quarto edition, 1668, printed on
two leaves, have been inserted.
---- The third edition. Revised and augmented by the same author.
London, 1678, 8vo.
---- The fourth edition. Adorn'd with sculptures. London, 1688, folio.
The first illustrated edition.
---- Another edition [with cuts]. London, 1692, folio.
---- Another edition. With copious and learned notes by P[atrick]
H[ume]. London, 1695, folio.
---- Seventh edition. Adorn'd with sculptures. London, 1705, 8vo.
---- Eighth edition. Adorn'd with sculptures. 2 vols. London, 1707, 8vo.
---- Ninth edition. Adorn'd with sculptures. London, 1711, 12mo.
The British Museum copy is said to be the only one on thick paper.
---- Tenth edition. With sculptures. London, 1719, 12mo.
---- Another edition. Dublin, 1724, 8vo.
---- Twelfth edition. To which is prefixed an account of his life [by E.
Fenton]. London, 1725, 12mo.
---- Thirteenth edition. To which is prefixed an account of his life [by
E. Fenton]. London, 1727, 8vo.
---- Fourteenth edition. To which is prefixed an account of his life [by
E. Fenton]. London, 1730, 8vo.
---- New edition [with notes and proposed emendations] by R. Bentley.
London, 1732, 4to.
One of the copies in the British Museum contains MS. notes by B.
Stillingfleet, and another MS. notes by W. Cole. A third copy has
inserted plates, a pencil sketch of Milton's house at Chalfont St.
Giles, and a cutting from the _Literary Gazette_, May 29th, 1830,
relating to Bentl
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