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Poems on several occasions / the author, John Milton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3552 .A1 1817b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tindale, John (bookplate) (Milton Collection copy 1)
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- Chiswick : C. Whittingham, Printer,
- Other Title:
- Minor poems of John Milton
- Half-title: Milton's minor poems
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Sharpe, 1817.
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) Lycidas
- L'allegro
- Il penseroso
- Sonnets
- Odes
- Miscellanies
- Translations
- Poemata.
- Notes:
- Added engraved t.p. (with illustration engraved by R. Rhodes after Richard Westall), which reads: The minor poems of John Milton. London; Published by John Sharpe. MDCCCXVI.
- Publisher supplied from added engraved t.p.; printer from colophon at end.
- Lycidas, L'allegro, Il penseroso, Sonnets, and Odes each has engraved half-t.p., each with illustration after Richard Westall by various engravers and imprint: Published by John Sharpe, Piccadilly. Aug. 24. 1816.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- PR3552.A1 1817 Milton Collection copy 1: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran bound in full calf with gold-tooled boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title, author's last name, and date ("1817") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers and edges; brown silk marker. Copy has boards detached and armorial bookplate of John Tindale on front pastedown. Milton Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A.Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran bound with: Milton, John. Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, and Arcades. London : John Sharpe, 1817. Milton Collection copy 3: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2018 has full calf gold-tooled boards. Spine decorated with elaborate gold-tooled decorations between "Milton," and "Minor Poems" which are stamped in blind with "Vol. IV" printed on red background at bottom; marbled endpapers with top of spine partially detached from text. Front free endpaper inscribed "A Birthday present to A. E. Barrett from M.S.". Each engraved half-title page has tissue guard.
- OCLC:
- 341338716
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