4o. (71⁄8 × 51⁄4). S. 11.
[Another copy.]
4o. (7 × 51⁄4). S. 12.
Both copies of the first edition, having Lowndes' third titlepage. Except for the alterations observable in the transcript, the titlepage has been printed from the same setting up of the type as the first, the rules round the title are however new. A fourth titlepage also bearing the date 1668 was printed by S. Simmons and has four rows of fleurs-de-lis under the author's name. Of the fifth and sixth titlepages recorded in Bohn's Lowndes no copies are known. The second of the above copies has the heraldic bookplate of Rob. Hodges, Fellow of Pembroke (1703).
Paradise lost. A Poem in ten Books. The Author John Milton. London, Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder at the Angel in Little Brittain. 1669.
4o. (7 × 51⁄4). S. 14.
Collation: A4a4A etc. as before. Titlepage on A 1. Printer's address to the Reader, signed S. Simmons. (5 lines.) Arguments to the ten books. Note on the verse. Errata. Text as before. This is again the first edition with addition of preliminary matter, and has Lowndes' seventh titlepage.
Paradise lost. A Poem in ten Books. The Author John Milton. London, Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder, at the Angel in Little Brittain, 1669.
4o. (7 × 51⁄8). S. 13.