Ramblings in the elucidation of the autograph of Milton / Samuel Leigh Sotheby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861.

Contributor:

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John--Autographs.

Milton, John.

Milton, John--Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa. (bookplate) (stamp) (Milton Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 263 pages, 29 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits, facsimiles ; 37 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author by T. Richards, 1861.

Notes:

Appendix (p. [205]-263): Biographical notices of eminent persons who have received honours from the sovereigns of England for their attainments in literature, science and art during the period 1660 to 1861.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries Milton Collection copy 1 imperfect: ports. wanting; boards detached; some leaves dampstained at tail margin.

Penn Libraries Milton Collection copy 1 has bookplate ("The Doctor Jeremiah Zimmerman Library, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa.") with ms. shelf mark on front pastedown; stamp ("The Theological Seminary Library, Gettysburg, Pa.") on title leaf; and discard stamps ("Discarded by the Library, Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg") at beginning and end of volume.

Penn Libraries Milton Collection copy 2: lower board, front and back free endpapers, first frontispiece and last printed leaf detached; spine mutilated at head.

ISBN:

0841480087

OCLC:

5199553