NMLP P-037984 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Paradise Lost

John Milton · Samuel Simmons, London (sold by Peter Parker, Robert Boulter and Matthias Walker) · 1667

No UK-vs-US question exists: London 1667 is the true first and the only first. There is no original-language issue — the poem is English. The 1674 second edition (twelve books, with the added commendatory verses) and the 1688 subscription folio are separate editions, not states of the first, and the 1688 folio in particular is often offered as an early 'first' — it is not.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037984 for "Paradise Lost" by John Milton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037984, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).