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MILTON, JOHN. The Poetical Works. . . containing Paradise Lost illustrating Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Sampson Agonistes, and his Poems on several Occasions. Together with Explanatory Notes. 12 engraved plates chiefly after Sir John Baptist Medina. [8], 219, [1], 219-343, [3]; [2], 321, [1]; [2], 66; [6], 57, [1]; [4], 9, [2], 10-11, [2], 12-60 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 317x194 mm, old calf, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip, endpapers renewed; scattered marginal soiling and minor stains, first part (Paradise Lost) with repaired hole in lower outer corner of F3 affecting a few letters and conspicuous soiling on page 295, second part (Annotations on . . . Paradise Lost) browned. Signature of the Earl of Rochford on the general title, his armorial bookplate on verso. London: Jacob Tonson, 1695
The first collection of Milton's poetical works published by Tonson in 1695 was assembled from different editions of the listed titles. This copy contains the 1695 edition of Paradise Lost, Annotations, and Poems upon Several Occasions, and the 1688 edition of Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes.
