The state of innocence, and fall of man : an opera : written in heroique verse, and dedicated to Her Royal Highness, the Dutchess

Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost, Newcomb, Thomas, -1681 or 1682, printer, Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1677 · London : Printed by T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for H. Herringman, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange · 3 pictures

A 1677 London opera by John Dryden, adapting Milton's Paradise Lost in heroic verse, printed by Thomas Newcomb for the bookseller Henry Herringman and dedicated to the Duchess of York. The pictures are small typographic material: a large capital E, R and A in heavy roman type, a symmetrical strapwork and grotesque ornament band, and a woodcut flower-urn initial T beside italic text, which suggests how seventeenth-century printers mixed display letters, decorative bands and cut initials on one page.

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