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. 4^o. (7 × 5¼). S. 14. Collation: _A_⁴a⁴A 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. 4^o. (7 × 5⅛). S. 13. 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: ‘M^r. Hollis desires the favor of M^r. Payne to present this Copy, unless it should prove a duplicate, to M^r. 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. 8^o. (6½ × 4¼). 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. 8^o. (7 × 4½). S. 15.