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Le paradis perdu de Milton : poëme héroïque / traduit de l'anglois ; avec les remarques de M. Addisson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3561.F8 D87 1771
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Paradise lost. French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Eve (Biblical figure).
- Adam (Biblical figure).
- Bible. Genesis--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
- Bible.
- Adam (Biblical figure)--Poetry.
- Adam.
- Eve (Biblical figure)--Poetry.
- Eve.
- Bible. Genesis.
- Fall of man--Poetry.
- Fall of man.
- History of Biblical events.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Mercier (autograph)
- Fayetz, Victor (autograph, 1852)
- New York Public Library (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 438, 98 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- Nouvelle édition, augmentée du Paradis reconquis, & de quelques autres pieces de poesie du même auteur.
- Fingerprint:
- ulr- r.é- l-c- *Cpo (3) 1771 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A la Haye : Chez les freres Van-Duren ..., MDCCLXXI [1771]
- Notes:
- Translation of later ed. attributed to Dupré de St.-Maur. Cf. BN, CXV, column 542.
- Signatures: pi² A-Y¹² Z⁴.
- The first leaf is blank.
- Woodcut title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Typographical ornaments.
- 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 full brown leather; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; marbled endpapers; all edges red; green silk marker.
- Penn Libraries copy: front free endpaper wanting; boards damaged; upper board and first few leaves of volume wormed at tail outer corner.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph of "Mercier" on first blank leaf, leaf pi1r and title leaf; ms. inscription and autograph of Victor Fayetz (dated 1852) on verso of first blank leaf; stamp in black ink ("The New York Public Library Astor Lenox & Tilden Foundations") on verso of first blank leaf and verso of title leaf, each overstamped "Cancelled" in red ink.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 200-201 (no. 727)
- Contains:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise regained. French
- OCLC:
- 468120573
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