Le Paradis perdu / par M. de Chateaubriand ; ornés de gravures.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

• Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
• Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• French

Genre:

• Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
• Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)

Physical Description:

456 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Bernardin-Béchet, 1859.

Language Note:

French prose translation at head of each page with English text at foot.

Notes:

Two engraved illustration plates, one after 'E Piaud' for book IX ("L'archange Michel appraissant à Adam aprés son péché.") with directions for placement ("Livre IX.--Page 400."), one after 'K. Girard' for book I ("Bientôt les guerriers se meuvent en phalanges parfaites") with directions for placement ("Livre I.--Page 35."). Cf. 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: title leaf wanting; plate for book I wanting.
• Penn Libraries copy formerly owned by the library of St. Bonaventure University with its library stamp on head-, fore- and tail-edges, p. 1, and p. 25 and its withdrawal stamp in red ink on verso of front free endpaper.
• Penn Libraries copy has stamp in red ink ("Christ the King Seminary Library") at foot of p. 456.
• Penn Libraries copy has ms. note in pencil on p. 1, which reads: "Paris, 1859 (based on copy I had w/title page)".
• Penn Libraries copy has illustrated printed holy card (10.5 x 7.5 cm.) with prayers in German to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and associated indulgences laid in.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 280-281 (no. 1058)

OCLC:

468120820