[Rarebooks] FS: Milton, Paradise Lost, 1770 edn, plates, association

[Bob Petrilla]

Milton, John. PARADISE LOST, A Poem in Twelve Books. The Seventh Edition,
with Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. London: Printed for
J. Beecroft, W. Strahan [et al], 1770. Seventh Edition.

Two volumes. Vol I -- pp: (xxi), lxxxvi Life of Milton, (ii) Samuel Barrow
poem in Latin, (iii) Andrew Marvel poem, (xx) Addison's Critique, 510;
engraved portrait and five plates. Vol II -- 463, (181) indices, (1)
publisher's advert; five engraved plates.. Bound in old calf, red leather
labels, gllt lettering and rules, raised bands, edges of boards tooled;
spine ends chipped, traces of foxing, still a tight set with all the
plates. 8" x 5".

School Prize. Mounted inside the cover of Volume I is a handwritten slip,
"This book was adjudged to Samuel Auchmuty, Jun'r. as a reward for his
Literary Merit, by the governors of King's College, December 23, 1771."
Samuel Auchmuty (1756-1822) was to become a British Army Lieutenant General
and Commander in Chief, Ireland. ~ King's College, where this set of Milton
was presented to Auchmuty, would become Columbia University.  He was
graduated from there in 1775, served in the loyalist army during the
American Revolution, &c.   $300.00

Usual trade terms, postpaid in US



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