iv pages, 5 unnumbered pages-387 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 17 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : H.M. Caldwell Co., [1898?]
Contents:
Paradise regained
Early poems
Odes
Epitaphs
L'allegro
Il penseroso
Arcades
Comus, a mask
Lycidas
Samson Agonistes
Sonnets and canzone
Miscellaneous poems and translations
Psalms
Johannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata
Joanni Miltoni Londinensi elegiarum liber
Epigrammatum liber
Sylvarum liber.
Notes:
Date supplied from Wickenheiser.
"[F]rontispiece portrait plate of Milton after Faithorne in tinted blue, title-page plate printed in red with elaborately decorative blue border trim in art nouveau style with an urn at the bottom on each side, and at the center at the top, the emblem of an open book whthin a laurel wreath with lighted flame above and scroll beneath containing the Latin inscription "Sapere Aude," ... two unsigned illustration plates for P[aradise] R[egained] ("Among the wild beasts" and "Satan, smitten with amazement fell")"--Wickenheiser.
Local Notes:
Milton Collection copies 1, 2, 3 and 4 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
Penn Libraries copy 1 has ms. inscription ("Papa from Cliff") on leaf preceding frontispiece.
Penn Libraries copy 2 inscribed "[t]o Miss Jose Anderson From Mamma Dec. 25, 1898" on front pastedown and "[t]o Ida gunderson, Dec. 25, 1898. From Mamma." on front free endpaper.
Penn Libraries copy 4: frontispiece detached from spine.
Cited in:
Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 395 (no. 1634-1638)
Related Work:
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise regained.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Allegro.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Penseroso.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Comus.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Lycidas.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Samson Agonistes.
OCLC:
463793952
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