Male : Poet & Pamphleteer. Married three times - in 1643 to Mary Powell (d1652), in 1656 to Catherine Woodcock (d1657) and 1662 to Elizabeth Minshull (she was 25 he was 55). Went blind in 1652.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bread Street, Cheapside, London

Date of Birth : 1608 Date of Death : 1674 Age : 65

Education : St Paul's School & Christ's College, Cambridge

1634-1650
Comus : A Masque (1634)
[Quaritch bought a copy at auction in 1907 for £162]
Discourse shewing what state the three kindomes are in at this present (1641) - pamphlet
Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England (1641)
Of Practical Episcopacy (1641)
Animadversions Against Smectymnus (1641)
The Reason of Church-Government Urged Against Prelaty (1641)
The Apology Against a Pamphlet Called a Modest Confutation (1642)
The Dictrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
Of Education (1644)
Areopagitica : A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing (1644) - 40pp
[This was published in his own name but the printer & bookseller are not named]
(Trans) The Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce (1644)
Colasterion : A Reply to a Nameless Answer Against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1645)
Tetrachordon : Expositions upon the Four Chief Places in Scripture which Treat of
Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage (1645)
Poems : Both English & Latin (1645 ptd by Ruth Raworth for Humphry Moseley, London)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels (1649)
Ekinoklastes, in Answer to a Book Entitled Eikon Basilika (1649)
[This was so successful that it is said fifty editions were published in the year]

1651-1670
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio (1651)
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654)
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (1659)
Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church (1659)
The Ready and Easy Way to Establisha Free Commonwealth (1660)
Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon Titled the Dear of God and the King, by Matthew Griffith (1660)
Accedence Commenc't Grammar, Supply'd with Sufficient Rules (1669 by John Starkey, London)
The History of Britain, That Part Especially now Called England (1670)

1671-1700
Paradise Regained (1671) (1680 for John Starkey, London. 2nd Ed)
Samson Agonistes (1671)
Artis Loghicae Plenior Institutio (1672)
Of the True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration and What best Means may be Urged
Against the Growth of Popery (1673)
Poems, &c upon Several Occasions (1673 Dring, London. 2nd Ed)
Epistolarum Familiarum Liber Unus (1674)
Litera Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani (1676)
Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in MDCXLI (1676)
The History of Britain (1677 J M for John Martyn, London)
A Brief History of Moscovia (1682)
Republican Letters (1682)
A Defence of the People of England (1692 printed in Amsterdam)
Letters of State .. Account of His Life .. several of his Poems (1694 London)
A Complete Collection of the Historical, political & Miscellaneous Works (1698 Amsterdam) - 3 vols

1701-1750
Original Letters and Papers of State Addressed to Oliver Cromwell (1743)
Paradise Regained (1743 Tonson. 8th Ed)

1751-1800
Comus : A Masque (1762 for A Millar, London)
Eikonoklastes, in Answer to a Book Entitled Eikon Basilike
(1770 G Kearsley. 2nd Baron Ed) - Edited by Rev R Baron
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (1790 for J Johnson, London)

1801-1825
The Prose Works (1809 John Miller, London) - 2 vols
A Treatise on Christian Doctrine (1825 CUP for Charles Knight)

1826-1850
L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1848 Art Union of London)
L'Allegro (1840 Joseph Cundall) - The Etching Club
[3 Editions priced at 6gns (50 copies), 4.5 gns (100) & 3 gns (150)]

1851-1900
Original Papers Illustrative of the Life & Writings of John Milton (1859 Camden Soc, London)
Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1868 James Nisbet) - Small, Albert Moore
A Common-Place Book (1876) - Edited by A J Horwood
The Shorter Poems (1889 Seeley) - Etchings by Samuel Palmer
Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1894 H Daniel, Oxford) - 200
The Early Poems (1896 Hacon & Ricketts, Vale Press) - 310
Three Poems of John Milton (1896 Ashendene Press) - 50
The Minor Poems (1898 George Bell) - Garth Jones. 100 on Japanese vellum
Facsimile of the Manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems (1899 CUP) (1965 CUP)

1901-1925
Areopagitica : A Speech (1903 Eragny Press, London) - 226 (of which 41 were destroyed)
Comus : A Maske (1902 Elston Press, NY) - 160
Comus : A Masque (1906 Routledge) - Jessie M King
Areopagitica (1907 Doves Press) - 25 copies
Areopagitica (1911 A & C Black) - 500
Comus (1921 Heinemann) (1921 Doubleday) - Arthur Rackham
Paradise Regained (1923 Scholartis Press, London) - 600
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1923 CUP) - 150. William Blake
Paradise Regained (1924 The Fleuron, London) - 350. Thomas Lowinsky
The Poems (1925 Chatto & Windus at the Florence Press) - 2 vols

1926-1950
Poems in English (1926 Nonesuch Press) - 2 vols. 1450. William Blake
Offered in 1991 for £220
Comus : A Mask (1926 Ernest Benn for Julian Editions) - 300. William Blake
The English Sonnets (1926 Swan Press) - Rachel Russell. 100
Minor Poems : The Noel Douglas Replicas (1926)
A Brief History of Moscovia and of other Less-Known Countries lying eastwards of Russia
(1929 Blackamore Press) - 600. A Brodovitch
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1930 Pear Tree Press, Flansham) - 100
Arcades (1930 High House Press, Dorset) - 100
Comus : A Mask (1931 Gregynog Press) - 250. Blair Hughes-Stanton
+ 25 bound by George Fisher
Offered in 1998 for £2500
The Works of John Milton (1931 Columbia UP) - 2 vols. 2000
Works (1931-8) - 18 vols. Edited by F A Patterson et al
Four Poems (1933 Gregynog Press) - 250. Blair Hughes-Stanton
Offered in 1999 for £500
The Mask of Comus (1937 Nonesuch Press) - 950. with Henry Lawes
[Henry Lawes (1596-1662), musician who wrote the original music for Comus in the 17thC]
L'Allegro : Il Pensoroso (1947 Allan Wingate) - Bernard Meninsky

1951 Onwards
Complete Prose Works : Vol 1 - 1624-1642 (1953 Yale UP)
L'Allegro (1954 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1780. William Blake
The Masque of Comus (1954 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500. Edmund Dulac
Areopagitica : A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
(1973 Rampant Lions Press for Deighton Bell) - 500, of which 100 de luxe
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1981 Whittington Press & Angscot Productions)
- 325. William Blake

The Poetical Works
(1720 Tonson) - 2 vols
The Works (1753 for A Miller, London) - 2 vols
With a Life of the Author by William Hayley (1794-7 Bulmer for Boydell & Nicol, London) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £550
From text of Dr Newton & Critique by Joseph Addison (1796 Cooke) - 2 vols
With a Life by Rev H J Todd (1801 for J Johnson) - 6 vols
Offered in 1999 for £2120
(1809 J Johnson, London. New Ed) - 7 vols
(1810 ptd for John Sharpe) - 3 vols
(1824 Baxter for Parker & Whittaker, London) - 4 vols. 1st Hawkins Edition
With a Life by Edward Philips (1827 E Fleischer, Leipsig)
(1835 Macrone, London) - 6 vols. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. J M W Turner
Offered in 1999 for £220
(1839 Wm Pickering : Aldine Edition) - 3 vols
(1851 Bickers, London) - 2 vols
(1877 Macmillan) - with photographic illus
(1899 Houghton Mifflin) - Edited by Wm V Moody
(1952-5 OUP) - 2 vols. Edited Helen Darbishire
(1971) - 2 vols. Edited by John Carey & Alastair Fowler

Paradise Lost : A Poem in 12 Books (1667)
[Milton only received £10 for writing this book. A copy sold at Sotheby's in 1917 for £164]
(1669 ptd by Samuel Simmons, London : 1st ed later Issue)
(1674 S Simmons, London. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £700
(1688 Jacob Tonson by Subscription)
(1688 Richard Bentley, London. 4th Ed. Folio)
(1725 Tonson. 12th Ed)
A New Edition by Richard Bentley (1732 Tonson for Poulson)
(1741 Tonson, London. 14th Ed)
With Paradise Regain'd (1758 Tonson) - 2 vols. 1st Baskerville Edition
(1760 C Hitch, London)
(1791 J & P Wilson)
(1803 for W Baynes)
(1805 Albion Press)
(1825-7 Septimus Prowett, London) - 2 vols. Engravings by John Martin
Offered in 1998 for £1400
(1828 Pickering : Miniature Edition)
(1833 Charles Tilt, London) - John Martin
Offered in 1998 for £360
(1838 Charles Tilt, London) - John Martin
(1850 Henry Washbourne, London) - John Martin
(1866 Cassell) - Gustave Dore
(1905 Routledge) - William Strang
(1906 Lyceum Press, Liverpool) - William Blake
With Paradise Regained (1936 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Carlotta Petrina
(1937 Golden Cockerel Press) - 200. Mary Groom
Offered in 1995 & 1999 for £650

READING
Francis Peck : New Memoirs of the Life & Poetical Works of John Milton (1740 London)
Offered in 1999 for £300
John Toland : The Life of John Milton (1761 A Millar, London)
William Hayley : The Life of John Milton (1796 Cadell & Davies. 2nd Ed)
Thomas Keightley : Account of the Life, Opinions and Writings of John Milton (1855)
G L Prendergast : A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton (1857 Madras)
David Masson : The Life of Milton (1859-94) - 7 vols
H F Fletcher : A Reference Guide to Milton from 1800 to the Present Day (1930)
Kenneth Muir : John Milton (1955 Longmans 10/6)
C Huckaby : Milton - A Bibliographical Supplement 1929-57 (1960)
William Riley Parker : John Milton - A Biography (1968 Clarendon Press)
John Broadbent : John Milton - Introductions (1973 CUP)
A N Wilson : The Life of John Milton (1983 OUP £9.95)