<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Paradise Lost. a poem in twelve books</dc:title><dc:creator>Milton, John, 1608-1674</dc:creator><dc:date>1678.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIN Osborn pb9:  Imperfect: front. wanting; p. 3-4 wanting; some leaves bled at top; p. 329-331 mutilated; damp-stained. Autographed and heavily annotated by Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN 1987 652 Copy 1-2:  Both copies with: Paradise regain'd ... / the author John Milton. London : Printed for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet-Street, near Temple-Bar, 1680. Copy 2: Autographs of Thomas Eccles, John Sanford, Anne Read, and Elihu Yale.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN 2006 490: 17 cm. Imperfect: Plate not present; trimmed at top edge, with very slight loss of text. Autograph: I. Watts, 170?. Autograph: Sam'l Sheafe, Coleman Str't, Lond. Bookplate: Sam'l Sheafe. Ms. annotations in hand of Isaac Watts. Dealer's description affixed to preliminary leaf.</dc:description><dc:description>Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸.</dc:description><dc:description>Pages [1]-[5] at end blank.</dc:description><dc:description>Many copies of this edition include a copy of the Dolle engraving of the Faithorne portrait as a frontispiece. Cf. ESTC.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>