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MILTON (JOHN) Paradisus amissa. Poema... Liber Primus [Paradise Lost. A Poem... Book the First], London, Printed 1702
11 March 2020, 13:00 GMT
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MILTON (JOHN)
Paradisus amissa. Poema... Liber Primus [Paradise Lost. A Poem... Book the First], 2 titles each with small woodcut ornament, and text in English and Latin (facing page to page), contemporary red morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, rubbed at extremities with small loss to foot of spine, small 4to (182 x 130mm.), London, Printed 1702
Footnotes
Scarce edition with parallel texts in English and Latin, the first appearance of Michael Bold's translation, with only 3 copies of this issue cited on ESTC, and none traced on Rare Book Hub (which lists only one copy of another issue printed in the same year).
Provenance: Thomas Key Bonney, inscription dated 1768, beneath price "Pret. 6d."; Cecil Deedes (1843-1920), gift inscription from Mr. Chignell, 1903, with Deedes' bookplate.