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The poetical works of John Milton / with illustrations by E.H. Corbould and John Gilbert.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3550 .E71 1871
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Severance, Eugene (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 7 unnumbered pages-528 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : T. Nelson and Sons, 1871.
- Notes:
- Added engraved t.p. with imprint: T. Nelson and Sons, London and Edinburgh.
- "While the title page says 'With Illustrations by E.H. Corbould and John Gilbert' ... the steel-engraved illustration plates here are reproductions of illustrations by T.G. Flowers published in earlier editions by T. Nelson and Sons ..."--Wickenheiser.
- Head- and tail-pieces; illustration on t.p.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: plate following half-title leaf wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's printed label ("J.W. Secomb ... Rockford, Ill.") on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("Ellis.") on half-title leaf; autograph ("Eugene Severance, Rockford Ills.") on back free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 530-531 (no. 2120)
- OCLC:
- 30677460
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