First edition. Without argument or preface. There are nine distinct variations of the title and preliminary pages.
—— Paradise Lost. A poem in ten books. The author J. Milton. (The argument. The verse.) London, 1668, 4to.
The same edition as the preceding, with a new title-page, and with the addition of the argument.
—— Paradise Lost. A poem in ten books. The author John Milton. London, 1669, 4to.
The same edition as the two preceding, with a new title-page and some slight alterations in the text. There is another copy in the British Museum which differs slightly. It has also the title-page dated 1668, and Marvell's commendatory verses in MS.
—— Paradise Lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. Second edition, revised and augmented by the same author. London, 1674, 8vo.
To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and Marvell. In another copy in the British Museum conjectural emendations from the quarto edition, 1749, and the octavo edition, 1674, corrected by the quarto edition, 1668, printed on two leaves, have been inserted.
—— The third edition. Revised and augmented by the same author. London, 1678, 8vo.
—— The fourth edition. Adorn'd with sculptures. London, 1688, folio.
The first illustrated edition.