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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the author John Milton ... ; in two volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3560 1790 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- 18th century.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Haselfoot, R. C. (autograph, 1791) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The ninth edition, with notes of various authors / by Thomas Newton.
- Fingerprint:
- s.of llld inar buDr (3) 1790 (R) v.1
- T.OF stWe reen drTh (3) 1790 (R) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, L. Davis, B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law [and 18 others in London], MDCCXC [1790]
- Notes:
- Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a-g⁸ h⁴ B-2K⁸ (2K8 blank) ; v. 2: A-2F⁸ *3A-*3Z⁴.
- Pagination: v. 1: [24], lxxxvi, [26], 510, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates ; v. 2: 463, [185] p., [7] leaves of plates.
- "The life of Milton" [by Thomas Newton]: P. [i]-lxxxvi.
- Advertisement for works by John Milton and Thomas Newton (headed "Lately published") on verso of last printed leaf of v. 2.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy: upper board and front free endpaper of each vol. detached.
- Penn Libraries copy: each vol. has bookplate of R.C. Haselfoot on front pastedown and autograph of the same (dated March 1791) on front free endpaper.
- Penn Libraries copy: v. 1 has a few ms. underlines and marginal marks in pencil in text and ms. notes in pencil on leaf 2K8v; v. 2 has offset of advertisement on reverse of frontispiece.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T133893
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 211 (no. 765)
- OCLC:
- 181802803
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