Paradise regained / John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Morley, Henry, 1822-1894.

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

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.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)

Physical Description:

192 leaves of plates, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Half-title: Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Co., [1901?]

Contents:

Paradise regained

Samson Agonistes.

Notes:

Date of publication conjectured from style of binding (cloth with gold-tooled art nouveau style stems with flowers, berries and leaves beside and partly over a gold-bordered reproduction of a portion of a painting, generally a land- or seascape, on upper board). Cf. Henry Altemus website (viewed on 18 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.

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 dark blue cloth; upper board tooled in gold with art nouveau style stems, flowers, berries and leaves beside and partly over a gold-bordered reproduction on paper of a seascape with a distant sailboat; title letter in gold at head of upper board; spine lettered in gold and decorated in gold and color with art nouveau style leaves and flowers.

Penn Libraries copy: frontispiece portrait (plate) detached from spine and laid in.

Penn Libraries copy has colored frontispiece plate (with copyright date of 1899 and captioned: O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom all things proceed. Book V.) from an Altemus edition of Paradise lost laid in.

Contains:

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Samson Agonistes.

OCLC:

500984365