i) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... revised by John Hawkey. Dublin: For the Editor, 1747, 2H3, 2R3 and 2Y4 in cancelled state, 2G4 uncancelled with reading "die" in line 330 on p.240, first Irish edited edition, full calf, binding worn, endpapers slightly soiled and torn with some early notes and scribblings;
ii) Another copy, with: Paradise Regained. A Poem in Four Books. With the other Poetical Works... Dublin: For the editor, 1752, together 2 volumes, contemporary tan morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges, with bookplates of Kenelm Henry Digby, two letters to Digby loosely inserted, spines slightly worn;
iii) Paradise Regain'd... to which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon Several Occasions. Glasgow: Robert Foulis, 1747 , later green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, title page and preliminaries with tiny tears;
iv) Paradise Lost, a Poem, in Twelve Books... with Notes, Selected from Newton and Others. Nottingham: C. Sutton, 1805, mid nineteenth-century half brown morocco with marbled boards, uncut, top edge gilt, some spotting and browning; 8vo and 12mo (5)

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