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Paradise Regained / John Milton.
LIBRA - Rare PR3563 1902 copy 4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.
- 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) (Milton Collection copies)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copies)
- Stellingware, Helen (former owner) (copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes
- Samson Agonistes
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Co., [1902?]
- Contents:
- Paradise regained
- Samson Agonistes.
- Notes:
- Date conjectured from advertisement at end of vol. for "Altemus' Popular Library" published in 1902. 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. [1-24] at end.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copies 1, 2 and 3 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- PR3563 1902 Milton Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran is bound in original white cloth, title lettered in gold above gold-tooled floriate pattern on left side of upper board; illustration (a woman in pink reading a book set against a circular motif in color, the whole surmounting a decorate floral design in gold) on paper pasted to right side of board; spine lettered and decorated in gold; copy is imperfect: frontispiece portrait (plate) wanting.
- PR3563 1902 Milton Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran is bound in original blue cloth; upper board has title lettered in gold on central green four-loved panel on gold panel with raised decorative floriate pattern, the whole within a border of gold double rules; spine lettered and decorated in gold.
- PR3563 1902 Milton Collection copy 3 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran is bound in original blue cloth, upper board has title lettered in gold on central red four-lobed panel on gold panel with raised decorative floriate pattern, the whole within a border of gold double rules; spine lettered and decorated in gold; white endpapers with green floriate designs around central publisher's monograph ("HA"). Copy is imperfect: frontispiece portrait (plate) wanting; advertisements (p. [1-24] at end) wanting. Has label ("Helen Stellingware ... La Crosse, Wisc.") on front free endpaper.
- PR3563 1902 Milton Collection copy 4 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has has white cloth boards decorated in art nouveau style with picture of lady in pink reading a book set against a circular motif in color tipped on right side. Endpapers elaborately decorated with green trim with the initials "HA" at the center. Photographic plate has horizontal cornice "Henry Altemus" with male holding a torch and female holding a wreath on each side and between them "Paradise Regained Milton". At back there are [16] pages of publisher's advertisements for various Altemus series.
- Contains:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Samson Agonistes.
- OCLC:
- 500984354
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