Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The Author John Milton. The second edition, With Notes of various Authors, By Thomas Newton, D. D. Volume the Second

by John Milton, Thomas (ed.) Newton, George (engr.) Vertue, Francis (ill.) Hayman, John (engr.) Miller

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Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [4], f. [1] (plates), pp. 5-456, [220], ff. [6] (plates), ff. [2] (blank). Contemporary calf. Spine on 5 bars with red and black panels, edges spread in blue. T. Longman has been added to the imprint of this volume and J. New removed. With 6 engraved plates (signed "F. Hayman inv. et del." and "I. S. Müller sc."). Includes tailpieces. Thomas Newton, later Bishop of Bristol, Samuel Johnson’s friend from his schooldays, included several of William Lauder’s forged ‘parallels’ in the notes to this magisterial edition of Paradise Lost. However, it contains the forger’s retraction in a a stop-press ‘Postscript’ dated 5 December 1750 (vol. 2, ff. Ff1-4), in which Newton discusses Lauder’s attack on Milton and his later confession. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039123739707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>