[28] pages, [12] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 39 cm.
General Note
The printer is named on the colophon: "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh."
Plates mounted in card.
Added etched title page which carries the date MDCCCXCV [1895].
Contents
List of illustrations designed and etched by W. Strang, and printed by F. Goulding, London.
1: Portrait of John Milton -- 2: Title page – Milton playing his daughters -- 3: Book I. Satan rising from the burning lake -- 4: Book II. Sin and Death and the Gates of Hell -- 5: Book IV. Happy state of Adam and Eve -- 6: Book V. Adam and Eve entertain Raphael -- 7: Book VII. The creation of the world -- 8: Book VIIII. The creation of Eve -- 9: Book IX. Eve tempted by Satan in the form of a Serpent -- 10: Book X. Adam rejects the condolement of Eve -- 11: Book XI. Michael sets before Adam a vision -- 12: Book XII. Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the armorial engraved bookplate of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson, Baronet Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray, Paddockhurst.
Copy Note
No. 84 in an edition of 150 copies.
Binding Note
Publisher's original quarter-bound cloth, with title and Strang illustration to upper board. Lettered in gilt on spine: "William Strang's etchings to Paradise Lost."