[Rarebooks] fa: JOHN MILTON - PARADISE LOST 1750 - Newton Edition w/ 13 Engraved Plates

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, May 29. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


John Milton: Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Second Edition, with Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, [et al], MDCCL [1750]. Two volumes, thick 8vo (20 cm), in full period calf; [24], lxxxv, [27], 510 pp.; 456, [210 (index)] pp.; portrait frontispiece and 12 copper-engraved plates after Francis Hayman (complete).

The second Newton edition, with his Life of Milton and with an added Postscript, dated December 3, 1750, regarding William Lauder and his "extraordinary" (and fraudulent) claim that Milton was a plagiarist. (See our auctions this week for a copy of Lauder's work, An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost, published this same year, with a misguided preface by Samuel Johnson.)

Boards rubbed and worn, spines flaking and cracked, two boards detached and the others held by the cords, bindings tender but holding; ownership signature of Joseph Milner to the front free-endpaper of vol. I, offsetting from the plates, some occasional light spotting, otherwise the contents are quite clean and fresh. An internally very nice copy.