Paraphrasis poetica in tria Johannis Miltoni, Viri Clarissimi, poemata, viz. Paradisum Amissum, Paradisum Recuperatum, et Samsonem Agonisten. Autore Guilielmo Hogæo

8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [ii], v-xxxvi, 510. Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b² B-2K⁸. Tooled calf, spine on 5 bars with red panel, blue edges with marbeld motif. On title page: owners' signature, i.a. “Th[oma]s Kirks 1730,” some crossed; institutional stamp, partly illegible, of a public library. Pencil marginalia. 

A Latin paraphrase, by William Hog, of "Paradise lost," "Paradise regain'd," and "Samson Agonistes." William Lauder’s principal source for the forgeries inserted in what he claimed to be John Milton’s own sources. See also D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-1998 (2nd ed.), M2158; ESTC, R4118; J.T. Shawcross. John Milton. A bibliography. Binghampton (NY), 1984, p. 352; K.A. Coleridge, A descriptive catalogue of the Milton collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library. Oxford, 1980, p. 184.

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