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The poetical works of John Milton / from the text of Dr. Newton ; with a critical essay by J. Aikin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3551 .N3 1801 copy 3 v.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Dunkin, J. (autograph) (Milton Collection copy 2)
- Sanborn, Alvan F. (Alvan Francis), 1866-1966 (autograph) (Milton Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Johnson ... [et al.] by H. Baldwin and Son, 1801.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy 1 imperfect: v. 4 only.
- 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 blue morocco; boards ruled in gold; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; title, volume number, and place and date of publication stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; green silk marker.
- Milton Collection copy 2 imperfect: v. 1-2 only.
- Milton Collection copy 2: v. 1 has some ms. marginal marks and a few notes in pencil in text; v. 2 has some ms. marginal marks in pencil in text.
- 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: v. 1 has dated 19th-century autograph ("J. Dunkin Janj. 24th 1811") in brown ink on front pastedown; dated 20th-century autograph ("Alvan F. Sanborn Paris, mar, 1904") of Alvan F. Sanborn (1866-1950) on front free endpaper.
- Milton Collection copy 2: v. 2 has dated 19th-century autograph ("J. Dunkin Janj. 24. 1811") in brown ink on front pastedown; dated 20th-century autograph ("Alvan F. Sanborn Paris, 1904") of Alvan F. Sanborn (1866-1950) on blank leaf preceding title leaf.
- Milton Collection copy 2: each vol. bound in full early calf; gold-tooled cover edges; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("MILTON'S WORKS") with evidence of gold-stamped black leather spine label (with volume number?) on v. 1.
- Milton Collection copy 3: v. 1 has a few ms. marginal marks in blue ink in text.
- Milton Collection copy 3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy 3: each vol. bound in half red roan over red cloth; 4 raised bands on spine; author's surname and vol. number stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; white silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 434 (no. 1793-1794)
- OCLC:
- 9149350
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