An Essay upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients, in his Paradise Lost. With some Observations on the Paradise Regain'd [Bound with

Bound with: Prior Robert, Lusus Westmonasterienses, sive, Epigrammatum et Poematum minorum delectus ([London], A. Campbell, 1730).

Contains: 

• [William Lauder] (attr.) / [Edward Phillips] (attr.), An Essay upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients, in his Paradise Lost. With some Observations on the Paradise Regain'd (London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1741).

8vo. ff. [2], pp. [3]-62. Half calf. Macclesfield bookplate. Imprint from label pasted on title page. With a pasted in ornament on the title page and an engraved headpiece on page [3]. Includes engraved initials.

An anonymous work by a Scotsman, apparently the immediate inspiration for the title of William Lauder’s ‘Essay,’ unwittingly suggested by Thomas Newton: see Newton’s second edition of ‘Paradise Lost,’ (1750), vol. II, p. 450. See also ESTC, T139378; E.N.S. Thompson, John Milton. Topical bibliography. New Haven, 1916.

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• John Douglas, Milton Vindicated From the Charge of plagiarism, Brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several Forgeries and gross Impositions on the Public. In a Letter humbly addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of Bath. By John Douglas, M.A. Rector of Eaton Constantine, Salop (London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751, see Bib# 4103321/Fr# 612 in this collection).

Douglas’s definitive exposure of William Lauder. For the revised and expanded second edition, see Bib# 8659376/Fr# 612.1 in this collection. See also ESTC, T94395.

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