The poetical works of John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Denholm, Matthew, former owner.

Purves, J., inscriber.

Allsebrook, Dorothy, former owner.

Curran, Stuart, honoree.

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, donor.

Girls' Public Day School Company, associated name.

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

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 440 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Ballantyne Press.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1892.

Contents:

Life of John Milton / by J.M. Ross

Paradise lost

Paradise regained

Samson Agonistes

Comus

Arcades

Minor poems. Lycidas ; L'allegro ; Il penseroso

Sonnets

Odes

Miscellanies

Translations

Poemata. Elegiarum liber ; Epigrammatum liber ; Selections from Sylvarum liber.

Notes:

With added engraved title page.

Title and text within single red ruled border.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center PR3550 .E92 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran. Inscribed to Matthew Denholm by J. Purves (14 July 1899) on verso of frontispiece. Spine damaged.

Kislak Center PR3550 .E92 copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2018. "Girls Public Day School Company Limited Nottingham High School" with profile of Athena surrounded by the motto "Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed" stamped in gold on front cover. Front pastedown has label stating this was a prize for arithmetic awarded to Dorothy Allsebrook. Copy has marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Copy has [9] unnumbered leaves of plates and no printed date.

OCLC:

440147809