Milton, John (1608-1674) The Poetical Works.

Milton, John (1608-1674)

The Poetical Works. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695.Folio, engraved portrait frontispiece engraved by R. White bound opposite typographical title page, general title, separate title for Paradise Lost, illustrated with twelve full-paged engravings chiefly after Sir John Baptist Medina, by Michael Burghers or Peter Paul Bouche; the lines in Paradise Lost numbered; title pages of Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes dated 1695; without a list of subscribers after the general title; with the Table for Paradise Lost; bound in full contemporary English paneled and speckled calf, tooled in blind, rebacked, corners repaired, near contemporary ex libris of Sarah Bugg inside front board; along with that of Sam Bontham, 1726; later owned by forger Osborne Charles Vyse Aldis, with his signature on general title, with a nine-line note in his hand and initialed on page 343; 12 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.Wing M-2163.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.