Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Eighth Edition. With Notes of various Authors by Thomas Newton. [Including ‘Life of Milton’ (Newton); ‘In Paradisum’ (Barrow); ‘On Paradise Lost’ (Marvell); ‘A Critique’ (Addison); ‘Postscript’ (Newton)]
( G. VERTUE and F. HAYMAN, illus. ) MILTON, John
REMARKANBLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
Published: Printed for W. Strahan Rivington Davis White [and 23 others], 1778
Stock code: 51860
Price: £720.00
2 vols., 8vo., Eighth Edition, with engraved portrait frontisiece and 12 fine engraved plates (a little light spotting), neat contemporary uniform signature on blank preliminary of each volume; eighteenth-century calf, neatly rebacked in roan to style, backs gilt with flat bands, one gathering in first volume slightly sprung, a remarkably crisp, clean copy.
The frontispiece (1750) is by George Vertue; the plates (one per book of the poem) by Francis Hayman engraved by Johann Sebastian Mueller. Complete with indexes (general; similes; verbal) and publisher's advertisement on final leaf verso of second volume. First published in 1749, Newton's famous edition augments the text of the second edition (1674) with extensive notes, annotation and indices, together with a 'Life' that remained prominent throughout the following century, and collected contextual comment from Addison, Barrow and Marvell. An unusually crisp, clean copy. ESTC T133897 (and see NCBEL I: 1237)..