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The poetical works of John Milton : with memoir, explanatory notes, &c.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3551 .W35 1889
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (inscription)
- Royal Porcelain Works Institute (Worcester) (bookplate)
- Siles, Ernest Arthur B. (inscription)
- Chamberlain, Jack (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxvi, 581 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Morrison and Gibb.
- Other Title:
- Milton : photographs
- Milton, with photographs
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : F. Warne and Co., 1889.
- Contents:
- Memoir
- Early poems
- Odes
- epitaphs
- L'allegro
- Il penseroso
- Arcades
- Comus, a mask
- Lycidas
- Paradise lost
- Paradise regained
- Samson Agonistes
- Sonnets and canzone
- Miscellaneous poem and translations
- Psalms
- Joannis Miltoni Londinensis poemata
- Joanni Miltoni Londinensi Elegiarum liber
- Epigrammatum liber
- Sylvarum liber.
- Notes:
- Half-title: The poetical works of John Milton.
- At head of title: The imperial poets.
- Plates (photographs mounted on leaves, each signed "Poulton's series"): "Portrait of Milton" (frontispiece with protective tissue); "Meadows trim with daisies pied ..."; "It was a rock ..."; "View of 'The Dead Sea'"; "Or surging waves against a solid rock ..."; "While Darwen stream with blood of Scots imbrued."
- Titles, text and illustrations within red-ruled border.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in decorated green cloth; all edges gilt; prize bookplate of The Royal Porcelain Works Institute Mutual Improvement Classes inscribed to Ernest Arthur B. Siles (29 May 1889) on front pastedown; dark blue label ("Ebenr. Bayliss & Son ... Worcester") on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy has letter from Jack Chamberlain to Joseph A. Wittreich (dated 3 August 2007) laid in.
- OCLC:
- 4177190
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