MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes, 4to, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rebacked). (3)

MILTON, John (1608-74).  Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books ... The Eighth Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton [Third volume:]  Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions ... A New Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton. London: Printed for J Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington (and others), 1775-77. 3 volumes, 4to (291 x 222mm). 3 engraved portraits of the author and 17 engraved plates by G. Vertue, S. F. Ravenet, C. Grignion and J. S. Miller after F. Hayman and I. Richardson (plates offset onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, a few leaves more heavily browned and spotted in vol. III). Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked by A. & M. Winstanley's, Salisbury, in 1968, preserving old lettering-pieces and bookplates, new endpapers). Provenance: William Charles Henry (armorial bookplate). Brunet III, 396. (3)