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The Poetical Works of John Milton / with introductions by David Masson, M.A., LL.D. Professor Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh ; biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copies)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, [1], 618, [2] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Milton's poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 46 East 14th Street, 1892.
- Contents:
- Biographical sketch
- Paradise lost
- Paradise regained
- Samson Agonistes
- Minor poems.
- Notes:
- Title and text within red-ruled border.
- Local Notes:
- PR3551.M3 1892b Milton Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran has [4] p. of publisher's advertisements within red-ruled border bound in at end of vol.
- PR3551.M3 1892b Milton Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has frontispiece illustration by Doré of Satan Journeying to Earth, protective guard, copyright dated 1892 on verso of title page and half titles for Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Introduction to the Minor Poems, and Poems: English and Latin. Original brown cloth boards with front cover elaborately decorated in black with decorative black border trim and with large circular emblem in gilt incorporating Milton's name at the center; spine decorated and lettered in gilt. All edges are gilt stained. Text has penciled marks.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina : South Carolina University Press, 2008, page 600 (no. 2378-2379)
- OCLC:
- 1493332
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