Collation as above. No printer's address to the reader and preliminary matter reset. The first edition with Lowndes' eighth titlepage. This was printed from an entirely new setting of the type. It may be distinguished from the seventh by the commas after 'Helder' and 'Brittain' and by having 'Angel' in italic in place of roman type; also by having a reversed 'p' for the 'd' in 'Paradise'. On an inserted leaf at the beginning is the inscription: 'Mr. Hollis desires the favor of Mr. Payne to present this Copy, unless it should prove a duplicate, to Mr. Capel. Pall Mall mar. 18. 1761.'
Paradise Lost. A Poem in twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.
8o. (61⁄2 × 41⁄4). W. 4.
Collation: Portrait unsigned, A4B-Y8, paged. Y 8 blank. Portrait engraved by W. Dolle. Commendatory verses, signed: S. B. M. D., A. M. Note on the verse. The arguments are prefixed to the several books. This is the second edition, in which the poem first appeared divided into twelve books.
Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. The Author John Milton. London, Printed by J. M. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar. MDCLXXI.
Collation: A2B-O8P4, paged. Licence, dated July 2, 1670, on leaf preceding titlepage. 'Samson' has a separate titlepage with same imprint on I 1, and fresh pagination. Note on Tragedy. Argument. Personae. At the end is an omitted passage and errata. First edition.
Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions. By Mr. John Milton: Both English and Latin, &c. Composed at several times. With a small Tractate of Education To Mr. Hartlib. London, Printed for Tho. Dring at the Blew Anchor next Mitre Court over against Fetter Lane in Fleet-street. 1673.
8o. (61⁄2 × 41⁄4). W. 3. 1.
Collation: A4A-S8, paged. Wants S 7 and 8 containing part of the advertisement of books. Table of English Poems. Table of Latin Poems. Errata. English Poems. 'Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata. Quorum pleraque intra Annum ætatis Vigesimum Conscripsit. Nunc primum Edita. Londini, Excudebat W. R. Anno 1673', i.e. the Latin Poems, with separate titlepage and fresh pagination but signatures continuous, and preceded by an address to the reader in Latin. Tractate of Education with pagination continuous with Latin Poems. Advertisement of books at end. This is the second edition of the 'Poems', of which there were two issues in the same year, the earlier bearing the White Lion as the sign of the stationer. The first edition of the poems both English and Latin appeared in 1645.