The poetical works of John Milton : reprinted from the best editions with biographical notice, etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Crowell's poets

[Crowell's poets]

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy 1 & 2)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

562 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Milton's poems

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1892?]

Contents:

Sketch of the life of John Milton

Paradise lost

Paradise regained

Samson Agonistes

Poems on several occasions

Comus

Sonnets

Psalms

Latin poems. Poemata ; Elegiarum liber ; Epigrammatum liber ; Sylvarum liber.

Notes:

Date of publication conjectured by Wickenheiser.

Series statement from advertising matter bound in at end of Milton Collection copy 1.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries copy 1: spine damaged.

Penn Libraries copy 1 has [28] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at end of volume, including descriptions of "the various and attractive styles of binding in which the numerous editions of this well-known series [i.e. Crowell's poets] are now published ..."; 1 folded sheet ([4] p. ; 21 cm.) of advertisements headed "Select List of Books Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack" (ca. 1909) laid in.

Penn Libraries copy 2 bound in original publisher's decorated brown cloth ("Wild-Rose Edition", according to publisher's advertisement); brief title stamped in gold on upper board and at head of spine; publisher's name stamped in gold at foot of spine; all edges gilt; laid paper copy.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 601 (no. 2384)

OCLC:

52754959