MILTON, John.
A poem, in twelve books.
Stock Code 113308
Glasgow, Printed by R. Urie, for John Wood, bookseller in Edinburgh, 1753
Our copy with the engraved portrait frontispiece noted in ESTC N34469 (5 institutional copies), but with the additional 12 plates and 53-page index only recorded for the earlier Urie editions. Some of the plates have been printed over what appears to be old paper stock from the earlier Urie editions.
12mo (13 x 8.5 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved plates (printed on old paper-stock?), additional engraved portrait tipped-in to front blank leaf verso, 53pp index to rear, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions in pen and cataloguing notes in pencil to front free endpapers, ink drawing to last leaf verso; contemporary vellum, MS title in pen to spine, all edges gilt, slightly rubbed, top-edge trimmed close to headline, occasional minor spotting, otherwise internally clean, very good; [8], [2], iii-xv, 16-351, [1], [54]pp.
ESTC N34469 (variant).
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