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Illustrations studied at the Harry Ransom Center of
the University of Texas at Austin,
summer, 1995.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Ed. Jacob Tonson. Illus. John Baptist Medina and Bernard Lens. London: 1688.
(The title page notes that the book is "adorn'd with Sculptures." In the University of Texas copy of this book, there are lists in script two pages before the engraving of Milton: "An Index of the Examples and Similes Contain'd in this book." )
Book I = 9 examples
Book II = 10
Book III = 2
Book IV = 8
Book V = 2
Book VI = 2
Book VII = 2
Book VIII = 0
Book IX = 6
Book X = 3
Book XI = 2
Book XII (no listing)
(Each example gives page and line. There is no indication in whose hand the lists are written. There is no indication if the compiler thought the lists exhaustive or not.)
Illustrations:
1. Frontispiece Engraving of Milton.
2. Facing argument to Book I Rebel angels & Satan.
3. Facing p. 27, arg. to Bk II Satan and demons.
4. Facing p. 61, arg. to Bk III Christ descending over Satan.
5. Facing p. 85, arg. to Bk IV Adam and Eve sleeping, side right. Episodic. (by B. Lens)
6. Facing p. 119, arg. to Bk V Episodic Adam and Eve in garden.
7. Facing p. 149, arg. to Bk VI War in heaven.
8. Facing p. 179, arg. to Bk VII Raphael with Adam and Eve.
9. Facing p. 199, arg. to Bk VIII Adam foreground, episodic.
10. Facing p. 219, arg. to Bk IX Two different Adams. Episodic.
11. Facing p. 157 [257], arg. Bk X Adam and Eve wail. Two angels fight above.
12. Facing p. 193 [293], arg. Bk XI Michael confronts Adam.
13. Facing p. 323, arg. Bk XII Adam and Eve sent out of stone stairway.
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