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Poems on several occasions ... / the author, John Milton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3552 1823 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- 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:
- 188 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- Chiswick : C. Whittingham.
- Other Title:
- Minor poems of John Milton
- Place of Publication:
- London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year MDCCCXXIII [1823]
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) Lycidas
- L'allegro
- Il penseroso
- Sonnets
- Odes
- Miscellanies
- Translations
- Poemata.
- Notes:
- Added engraved t.p.: The minor poems of John Milton. London: Published by John Sharpe. MDCCCXVI.
- "C. Whittingham, College House, Chiswick."--P. 188.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy 1 bound in full black leather; boards tooled in gold and blind; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; panels at head and foot of spine tooled in gold and blind; 3 spine panels stamped in gold with author's last name, volume number, and "Minor Poems", respectively; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; yellow endpapers; evidence of green silk marker.
- Milton Collection copy 2 bound with: Milton, John. Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades. London : J. Sharpe, 1823.
- Milton Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy 2 has dated 19th-century ms. gift inscription ("E.J.C. from T.S.C. On her Birthday 1829") in brown ink on blank leaf preceding added engraved title leaf.
- Milton Collection copy 2 bound in full calf; boards triple-ruled in blind; blind-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; 2 gold-stamped black leather spine labels ("PARADISE REGAINED" and "MILTON"); all edges marbled.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 408 (no. 1697)
- OCLC:
- 123959358
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