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The state of innocence and fall of man described in Milton's Paradise lost rendered into prose : with historical, philosophical, and explanatory notes / from the French of the learned R. de St. Maur by a gentleman of Oxford.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3561.F6 G7 1745
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Howell, Joshua (autograph)
- Howell, Katherine (inscription)
- Hopkins, Anna (inscription)
- Mercantile Library of Philadelphia (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- nsng ndhe y,e- ofes (3) 1745 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, and J. Hildyard at York, MDCCXLV [1745]
- Notes:
- "In fact by Nicolas François Dupré de Saint-Maur. Translated and paraphrased by George Smith Green. This prose version was originally published in French as 'Paradis perdu de Milton'."--ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]² B-2E⁸ 2F-2H⁴ 2I⁶.
- Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph of Joshua Howell on title leaf and leaf R7r; 2 inscriptions ("Katherine Howell" and "Anna Hopkins") on title leaf; stamp of Mercantile Library of Philadelphia on title leaf and on various subsequent leaves.
- Penn Libraries copy: leaf B1 torn and mended at head margin.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T134631
- Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) V, p. 357
- OCLC:
- 5764987
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