L'allegro / by John Milton ; illustrated by the Etching Club.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

• Hayday, James, 1796-1872, binder.
• Etching Club (London, England)
• Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Allegro

Language:

English

Genre:

• Fine bindings.
• Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
• Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
• Ohane, Virginia B. (bookplate)
• Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888 (autograph)
• Hayday, James, 1796-1872 (stamp)

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered leaves, 20 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Published for the Etching Club by J. Cundall, 1849.

Notes:

• "The Poem is printed from the original Edition of 1645."--Prelim. leaf [3].
• Mounted India proofs with text and illustrations.
• Title and dedication in red and black; "L'Allegro" in read at head of each leaf of text.
• "[E]ach engraved leaf with guard sheet"--Wickenheiser.

Local Notes:

• Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
• Penn Libraries copy bound by Hayday in full dark maroon morocco; boards tooled in blind; upper board stamped with title, author's name and "Illustrated by the Etching Club" in gold; 4 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels and turn-ins; all edges gilt.
• Penn Libraries copy has bookplate ("Virginia B. Ohane") and stamp ("Bound by Hayday") on front pastedown; autograph ("Rich. Redgrave ... 1865") on blank leaf at beginning of volume; ms. note in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 107 (no. 353)

OCLC:

63957069