Paradise Regain'd ... to which is added Samson Agonistes

The 1671 London octavo is the only edition published in Milton's lifetime and is the true first of both poems — Samson Agonistes has no separate prior edition, appearing here for the first time. The census claim is confirmed. There is no earlier or competing continental or original-language edition; Milton wrote in English and the book was published in London. It is habitually collected alongside the 1667 Paradise Lost (London, printed for Peter Parker and others), which is a separate high spot with its own celebrated sequence of title-page states, and the two should never be conflated: neither is an issue of the other.