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Paradise lost : a poem / by John Milton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copies)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copies)
- James, Anna (autograph) (Milton Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- lviii, 351 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New edition / revised by J. W. Lake, and embellished with a portrait.
- Manufacture:
- [Paris] : Printed by H. Fournier,
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Baudry's European library, 1833.
- Contents:
- The life of Milton, with criticisms on his works / by Dr. Johnson
- A general critique upon the Paradise lost / by Joseph Addison
- Paradise lost.
- Notes:
- Imprint continues: Sold also by Théophile Barrois, jun., Rue Richelieu; Truchy, Boulevard des Italiens; Amyot, Rue de La Paix; Librairie des étrangers, Rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin; and French and English Library, Rue Vivienne.
- Plates: portrait of Milton, engraved by Maulet (frontispiece); Sin interceding between Satan and Death, engraved by Frilley after Johannot; the temptation of Eve, engraved by Markl after Johannot.
- Second half-title before Book I of Paradise Lost.
- Local Notes:
- PR3560 1833 Milton Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran has stamp ("2D188") on back pastedown.
- PR3560 1833 Milton Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has marbled paper over boards, gilt decorated spine with gilt lettering and gilt edges. Copy is inscribed "Forget me not. Anna James" on half-title page. This copy has frontispiece portrait of Milton only.
- Cited in:
- Wittenheiser, R. J. Collection of John Miltonat the University of South Carolina, South Carolina Press, 2008 page 255, item 918
- OCLC:
- 7865742
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