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Poems / John Milton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3552 1899
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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)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Piatt, Becky (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Milton's earlier poems
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1899]
- Notes:
- Title leaf and added illustrated title leaf are plates.
- Date supplied from 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 in gray cloth; upper board has gilt-tooled border panels at head and foot and central colored illustrated panels (a pastoral landscape) tooled and lettered in gilt; spine tooled and lettered in gilt; white endpapers with green floriate designs around central publisher's monogram.
- Penn Libraries copy: front free endpaper wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("Becky Piatt") on p. [1]; ms. inscription in pencil ("Clifford") on front pastedown; a few ms. pencil underlines in text.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 411 (no. 1710-1714)
- OCLC:
- 21121301
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