This book was found online, purchased by a few of us GLOSSers, and is now returned to the Library at Chawton House. It was in the 1818 catalogue and shelved in the East Case: column 5, shelf 6.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem. Book The First. Paradisus Amissa. Poema, A Joanne Miltono Conscriptum (Latin and English). J. Hughs, 1736. Bookplate of Montagu George Knight of Chawton to front end paper.
Montagu George Knight bookplate
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Wonderful news! Milton is all over Sotherton.
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Thanks Jocelyn! We can only believe that this was the Milton she read!
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Yes–plenty of other copies would be around too. But DNA test, starting with the hair????
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