Paradise Lost / by John Milton ; a series of twelve illustrations etched by William Strang

William Strang RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

22/12

Author

Imprint

London: John C. Nimmo, MDCCCXCVI

Physical Description

[28] pages, [12] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 39 cm.

General Note

The printer is named on the colophon: "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh."
Plates mounted in card.
Added etched title page which carries the date MDCCCXCV [1895].

Contents

List of illustrations designed and etched by W. Strang, and printed by F. Goulding, London.

1: Portrait of John Milton -- 2: Title page – Milton playing his daughters -- 3: Book I. Satan rising from the burning lake -- 4: Book II. Sin and Death and the Gates of Hell -- 5: Book IV. Happy state of Adam and Eve -- 6: Book V. Adam and Eve entertain Raphael -- 7: Book VII. The creation of the world -- 8: Book VIIII. The creation of Eve -- 9: Book IX. Eve tempted by Satan in the form of a Serpent -- 10: Book X. Adam rejects the condolement of Eve -- 11: Book XI. Michael sets before Adam a vision -- 12: Book XII. Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the armorial engraved bookplate of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson, Baronet Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray, Paddockhurst.

Copy Note

No. 84 in an edition of 150 copies.

Binding Note

Publisher's original quarter-bound cloth, with title and Strang illustration to upper board. Lettered in gilt on spine: "William Strang's etchings to Paradise Lost."

Contributors

William Strang RA, engraver, illustrator
John C. Nimmo, publisher
Frederick Goulding, printer
John Milton, author, Paradaise Lost
Weetman Pearson 1st Viscount Cowdray, previous owner
Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. (Edinburgh and London), printer
Ballantyne Press, printer