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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Milton, John. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. Frontispiece portrait plate by John Norman. 15, 328 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; flyleaf defective, corner missing from half-title with loss of text to ad on verso, frontispiece detached with repaired closed tear on image, leaf Oo1 missing corner and a bit of text, faint dampstaining; inscriptions of William Robinson on fly-leaf and half-title. sold without its companion volume, paradise regain'd, as usual. Philadelphia, 1777
first american edition, more than a century after its first appearance in London--the Revolution inspired American publishers to ignore British copyright. Published with an introductory letter by Jacob Tonson, the poem "On Paradise Lost" by Andrew Marvel, and 2 introductory essays: "The Verse" and "The Arguments of the Twelve Books." Evans 15443.
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