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Paradise regained / John Milton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3563 1900 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Gospels--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels.
- History of Biblical events.
- Bible. Judges--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
- Bible. Judges.
- Jesus Christ--Temptation--Poetry.
- Jesus Christ.
- Temptation.
- Temptation of Jesus Christ.
- Samson (Biblical judge)--Poetry.
- Samson.
- Samson (Biblical judge).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Berney, Agnes Ellen (autograph) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1900?]
- Contents:
- Paradise regained
- Samson Agonistes.
- Notes:
- Date conjectured from advertisements at end of vol. for items (e.g. "Abbott's Historical Series") published in 1900. Cf. Henry Altemus website (viewed on 17 Dec. 2009).
- Plates: added photographic title leaf with title and author's name lettered in red; unsigned frontispiece portrait of John Milton as a young man ("Copyright, 1899, by Henry Altemus"); title leaf lettered in red with decorative green trim.
- Introduction signed: H.M. [i.e. Henry Morley]. Cf. Wickenheiser, R.J., Collection of John Milton, p. 396.
- "Publications of Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia": P. [1-16] at end.
- 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 original green cloth; upper board has title lettered in gold and large square panel of flowers and leaves tooled in black and dark green with a gold background; spine lettered in gold and decorated with flowers in black; white endpapers with green floriate designs around central publisher's monogram ("HA").
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy has autograph ("Agnes Ellen Berney.") on front free endpaper.
- Milton Collection copy bound in original red cloth; left board has title lettered in gold within single-ruled gold border above gold-bordered color illustration of one arch of a bridge across a river with wooded banks, the whole surrounded by a border of gold roses and leaves within a single-ruled gold border; spine lettered and decorated in gold.
- Contains:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Samson Agonistes.
- OCLC:
- 500987625
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