Front cover image for Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton D.D

Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. From the text of Thomas Newton D.D

Print Book, English, 1759
Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, Birmingham, 1759
Biographies
[8], lxxii, 416 pages ; 4to
228755036
The life of Milton
Paradise lost
There is no punctuation after Birmingham in the imprint
Variant titlepage; in some copies there is a colon after "Birmingham" in the imprint
"There are usually no plates, but occasionally a frontispiece (signed Miller) and set of twelve plates (signed Hayman and Miller) are found, . They were supplied by Tonson, who distributed several versions of these designs" (Gaskell)
Pp. i-lxxii contain 'Life of Milton'