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The Paradise lost of John Milton : with notes explanatory and critical / edited by James R. Boyd.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3560 1853
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Series:
- National school series.
- National school series
- Standardized Title:
- Paradise lost
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Holst, Charles (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 552 pages ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Other Title:
- Milton's Paradise lost : with explanatory notes
- Boyd's Milton
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Chicago : A.S. Barnes & Co., [not before 1853]
- Notes:
- "School and academic edition"--Cover.
- "School edition"--Spine.
- Index added in 1853. Cf. R.J. Wickenheiser, Collection of John Milton, p. 293.
- Series statement from front cover.
- Publisher's advertisement on verso of title leaf.
- Includes index.
- 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 one-quarter dark leather over orange paper boards; upper board printed with title, author's name, edition statement and central vignette (seated woman teaching two children accompanied by a bird carrying a banner which reads: Knowledge is power) within decorative floriate border; series statement at head and imprint at foot of upper board within ruled border; lower board printed with circular publisher's emblem ("A.S. Barnes & Co." surrounding a bee and honeycomb); spine lettered in gold.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("Ch. Holst") on leaf preceding title leaf; ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; some ms. underlines, marks and annotations in pencil in text, chiefly in book 1.
- OCLC:
- 463793603
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