POEMS

OF

Mr. John Milton

BOTH

ENGLISH and LATIN,
Compos'd at feveral times.

Printed by his true Copies.

The SONGS were fet in Mufick by

Mr. HENRY LAWES Gentleman of
the KINGS Chappel, and one

of His MAIESTIES
Private Mufick.

Baccare frontem

Cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futurO,
Virgil, Eclog. 7.

Printed and publifh'd according to

ORDER

LONDON,

Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mofcleys
and are to be fold at the figne of the Princes
Arms in Pauls Church-yard. 1645.

FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE PORTRAIT BY MARSHALLTHE EARLIEST PUBLISHED PORTRAIT OF THE POET [NUMBER 276]

277 MILTON (JOHN). Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, compos'd at several times. Etc. With engraved portrait by Marshall.

London, Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, . 1645

In one vol., small 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders and edges, by Mercier. With the genuine blank leaf A. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Except "Lycidas", "Comus", and the Shakespeare epitaph, all are First Editions. The Church catalogue gives the portrait as A, but as this copy contains the genuine blank leaf A, we consider the portrait an extra leaf. The Chew-Huntington copy, and a remarkably fine one.

278 MILTON (JOHN). Paradise lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books By John Milton. Licensed and Entred according to Order.

London Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under
Creed Church neer Aldgate; And by Robert Boulter at the
Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; And Matthias Walker,
under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 1667
Small 4to, original sheep. Some stains. In a blue straight-grain
morocco solander case. Old signatures on fly-leaf.
FIRST EDITION. First Title-page, with the author's name, John Milton,
in large italic capitals. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND LARGE COPY, measur-
ing 7 by 51⁄2 inches. It is throughout of the First Issue, having the
earliest version of the quire L, before any corrections had been made.
The Wyatt-Lefferts-Winans-Whistler copy, with the signature of Sir
M. Digby Wyatt, the celebrated architect, on the fly-leaf, and with the
Lefferts bookplate. Sir M. Digby Wyatt has an interesting pencil
note, dated Sept. 6th, 1857, in which he says: "This edition is the
first and has the first titlepage It is worth nearly £10 and is

a book rising in value .. It certainly is.

Laid in is a letter from Bernard Quaritch to Mr. Chew, in which Mr. Quaritch says: "It is probably the finest copy of the book now in existence, certainly the finest which I have seen.'

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Paradise loft.

A

POEM

Written in

TEN BOOKS

By JOHN MILTON.

Licensed and Entred according to Order.

LONDON

Printed, and are to be fold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopfgate-ftreet; And Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Ghurch in Fleet-freet, 1667.

FIRST TITLE-PAGE, IN ORIGINAL BINDING PROBABLY THE FINEST COPY NOW AVAILABLE [NUMBER 278]

279 MILTON (JOHN). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author John Milton.

London, Printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thom-
son at the Bishops-Head in Duck-lane, H. Mortlack at the
White Hart in Westminster Hall, M. Walker under St.
Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, and R. Boulter at the
Turks-Head in Bishopsgate street, 1668

4to, brown crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders
and edges, by Bedford. In a slip-case.

FIRST EDITION. Fourth Title-page. The sheets of all the issues of "Paradise Lost" are the same, A-Vv2, but the first three issues have only the title for preliminary matter; with the fourth title-page, the publishers introduced "The Printer to the Reader" (five lines with heading and signature of Simmons), The Argument, Milton's note on "The Verse", and the Errata, making seven leaves altogether besides the title-page. The sheets of the various issues contain many textual differences, but there is no order in the changes, as some copies contain one title-page with certain uncorrected sheets, and others have the same title-page with corrected sheets; still others have mistakes which did not occur in the earlier issues. A very fine copy. With the Hoe bookplate.

280 MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. The Author John Milton.

London, Printed by J. M. for John Starkey at the Mitre in
Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar. MDCLXXI

8vo, blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled, gilt inside borders and
edges, by [William Matthews].

FIRST EDITION. The Griswold-Ives-Haber-Ives copy, with the Haber and Ives bookplates. A note by Mr. Chew on the provenance of this copy is written on the fly-leaf.

281 MILTON (JOHN). The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton,
Volume the First. [Second.] Engraving by Vander Gucht
on title; frontispiece portrait of the poet by Vertue; and
35 other large engravings in the text, chiefly by Vander
Gucht, together with engraved initials, etc.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakspear's Head
in the Strand. MDCCXX

2 vols., 4to, original calf (rebacked), gold and blind tooled.
The first volume contains "Paradise Lost", with Notes, Index, and
The Names of the Subscribers. The second volume has "Paradise
Regain'd", "Samson Agonistes", "Lycidas", etc. Both volumes have
the bookplate of William Cowper, cousin of the poet, with his signa-
ture and manuscript notes, and his name, printed, pasted on the title-
page. Cowper was Clerk of Parliament, and an original subscriber.
There is also the Fielder armorial bookplate. A very fine copy of
this elaborate edition.

282 MILTON (JOHN). A Collection of Portraits of John Milton, with a Monograph on Milton, and a Paper on the Engraved and Pretended Portraits of John Milton, by J. F. Marsh. Inlaid to folio, and bound in brown crushed levant morocco, line tooled back and sides, by Zaehnsdorf. In a morocco slip-case.

THIS IS A MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION, which was gathered by Edward Whittaker Hennell. It contains 72 portraits of Milton, by various artists and in various states, including the original impression of Faithorne's plate; an etched portrait by Cipriani; stipple portrait by Gardiner, of Milton at 10 years of age; an ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING by Vertue, signed, with another drawing on the verso; fine line engraving by Houbraken; and portraits by Marshall, White, Vander Gucht, and others. There are also 7 facsimiles of Milton's handwriting and 9 views, etc. With the Hennell bookplate.

283 MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. A Mirrovr For Magistrates. Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Elaborate woodcut border. Black Letter.

Anno. 1563. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to
Saynet Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe.

Small 4to, maroon straight-grain morocco, gilt tooled, gilt edges, by
[C. Lewis]. Small piece cut from top corner of fly-leaf, title-page
extended on two margins and skilfully repaired, lower outer corner of
Cxi neatly restored, one or two pages slightly soiled.

SECOND EDITION. The Third or Last Part of the "Mirror for Magistrates" was edited by William Baldwin and first appeared in 1559. It was not called the Last Part until 1574, when the First Part was issued to precede it. This Second Edition contains a Second Part of 8 additional Legends, including Sackville's Legend of the Duke of Buckingham, with Induction.

The Corser-Ross Winans copy, with the Winans bookplate, and name and notes on fly-leaf. Mr. Chew's note reads: "Second edition-but with the first edition of the 'Second Part' containing Sackvill's Induction and Buckingham."

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