Front cover image for The Paradise lost of Milton

The Paradise lost of Milton

John Milton (Author), John Martin (Illustrator)
Print Book, English, 1827
Septimus Prowett, London, 1827
Poetry
2 volumes : illustrations (mezzotints) ; 37 cm
181733989
Imperial quarto edition, with proofs of smaller plates; plate-marks 27 x 20 cm
"Limited edition of 50 copies, unnumbered, Imperial quarto, with proof impressions of these plates"--Balston cited below
Printing information from title page verso. Colophon reads: Thomas White, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street
Printer's device (woman watering flowers with motto "Te favente virebo") above colophon
Volume 1: 4 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates; volume 2: 2 unnumbered pages, 218 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates
24 mezzotint engravings by John Martin