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Paradise lost / by John Milton ; with explanatory notes by Henry Stebbing.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3560 1845
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Grey, Lyla (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 17 unnumbered pages-296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton & Co. ; Philadelphia : Geo. S. Appleton, 1845.
- Notes:
- "[U]nsigned engraved frontispiece illustration for Book II ('Caught in a firey tempest ... Each on his rock....'), protective tissue guard"--Wickenheiser.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect?: frontispiece described by Wickenheiser wanting; bound in its place is an unsigned engraved plate with caption: The Morning Dream.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph of Lyla Grey in pencil on reverse of frontispiece; clipping with portrait of John Milton, aged 10, pasted to reverse of frontispiece; some ms. annotations, underlines and marks in pencil in text.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 262 (no. 958)
- OCLC:
- 79277450
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