[Rarebooks] fa: JOHN MILTON - PARADISE LOST + PARADISE REGAIN'D &c. - Glasgow: Foulis 1747-1765

[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


John Milton: Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books… According to the Author's Last Edition, in the Year 1674. Glasgow: Printed and sold by R. & A. Foulis printers to the University, 1761. Two volumes; half-title in vol. I as called for. ESTC N37976; Gaskell 396. [WITH:] Paradise Regain’d. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon Several Occasions, with A Tractate of Education. Glasgow: Printed and sold by Robert Foulis, 1747. Two volumes. In four parts, each with separate title-pages, pagination and year of publication: Paradise Regain’d’ (1747), Samson Agonistes (1755), Comus (1754) and Poems on Several Occasions’ (1765). ESTC T118006; Gaskell 88, 90.

Together, four volumes, 12mo (12.5 cm), uniformly bound in period calf with gilt-tooled spines. Bindings rubbed with wear to the edges and extremities, two spine labels rubbed off, joints cracked but the boards are secure; five leaves with bumped/dog-eared corners, else clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-downs with the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Martin Browne Ffolkes, Bart. (1749-1821), MP and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Robert Foulis was appointed printer to the University of Glasgow in 1743, where he was soon joined by his younger brother Andrew. For more than thirty years the Foulis brothers were engines of the Scottish Enlightenment, issuing important, finely printed works noted for their editorial meticulousness.