The prose works of John Milton / edited by J.A. St. John.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

St. John, James Augustus, 1795-1875.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bohn's standard library

Standardized Title:

Prose works

Language:

English

Latin

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)

Osgood, C. G. (autograph)

Physical Description:

5 volumes : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : G. Bell, 1908-1911 [v. 1: 1910].

Contents:

Vol. 1. A defence of the people of England ; The second defence of the people of England ; Eikonoklastes

v. 2. The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of state, &c. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; The reason of church government urged against prelacy ; Of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes

v. 3. The likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the church ; Animadversions upon the remonstrants' defence against Smectymnuus ; Apology for Smectymnuus ; The doctrine and discipline of divorce ; The judgment of Martin Bucer concerning divorce ; Tetrachordon ; Colasterion ; Tractate on education ; A declaration for the election of John III King of Poland ; Familiar letters

v. 4. A treatise on Christian doctrine, book 1 / translated from the original by Charles Sumner

v. 5. A treatise on Christian doctrine, book 2 / translated from the original by Charles Sumner ; The history of Britain ; The history of Moscovia ; Accedence commenced grammar.

Notes:

Vol. 1 dated: 1910 ; v. 2-3 each dated: 1909 ; v. 4 dated: 1911 ; v. 5 dated: 1908.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor headed "The Bohn edition of Milton's prose" and signed "James Goode" laid in.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 3: autograph of C.G. Osgood in pencil on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: a few ms. underlines and annotations in pencil in text; v. 2: a few ms. underlines, marginal marks and annotations in red ink or pencil in text; v. 3: a few ms. underlines in pencil and marginal marks in pencil or ink in text, as well as a ms. note in ink on verso of back free endpaper; v. 4: a few ms. underlines, marginal marks and annotations in pencil in text.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. has [32] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at end.

OCLC:

5282575