Le Paradis perdu : poëme / par Milton ; édition en anglais et en français ; ornée de douze estampes imprimées en couleur d'après les tableaux de M. Schall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Dupré de Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François, 1695-1774.

Racine, Louis, 1692-1763

Schall, Jean-Frédéric, 1752-1825

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

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Paradise lost. French & English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Eve (Biblical figure).

Adam (Biblical figure).

Bible. Genesis--History of Biblical events--Poetry.

Bible.

Adam (Biblical figure)--Poetry.

Adam.

Eve (Biblical figure)--Poetry.

Eve.

Bible. Genesis.

Fall of man--Poetry.

Fall of man.

History of Biblical events.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Pirie, Robert S. (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Klochkov, V. I. (Vasiliĭ Ivanovich), 1861-1915 (label) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm

Fingerprint:

ler- U.LE reil BuHe (3) 1792 (A) v.1

U.LE uiur e.si ApTo (3) 1792 (A) v.2

Place of Publication:

Paris : Chez Defer de Maisonneuve ..., 1792.

Notes:

Prose translation of: Paradise lost (English text and French translation on facing pages).

"[T]ranslation by N.F. Dupré de Saint-Maur, as revised by C.J. Chéron de Boismorand, first printed in 1729"--Wickenheiser. Also attributed to Louis Racine. Cf. Bibliothèque nationale catalogue.

Signatures: t. 1: pi² a⁴ A-3C⁴ ; t. 2: pi² A-3A⁴ 3B1.

Pagination: t. 1: [4], viij, 391, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates ; t. 2: [4], 377, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates.

Plates: 12 color plates (stipple etchings, printed à la poupée) variously engraved after Jean-Frédéric Schall, one for each book of the poem. Cf. Wickenheiser.

"'Vie de Milton' translated from Elijah Fenton's"--Wickenheiser.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

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

Milton Collection copy imperfect: plates to accompany books 6 and 8 wanting.

Milton Collection copy: t. 1: bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on leaf preceding half-title leaf; Arabic number "12" supplied in ms. in pencil above the word "douze" on title leaf; boards and all before title leaf detached from spine; spine damaged.

Milton Collection copy: t. 2: leaves of gatherings A-N dampstained in fore-edge margin.

RBC copy: v. 1 has a few ms. bibliographical notes in pencil and red pencil on verso of front free endpaper; v. 2 has ms. note in French in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at auction in the collection of Robert S. Pirie at Sotheby's, 2 December 2015, lot 962.

RBC copy has illustrated bookplate of Robert S. Pirie on verso of front free endpaper of each volume; bookseller's label ("Bukinist V. Klochkov, S.P.B., Liteĭnyĭ pr. 55. Libraire V. Klotschkoff, St. Petersbourg Liteinaja 55.") of V. I. Klochkov in Cyrillic and Roman characters affixed to blank leaf following last printed leaf of v. 2.

RBC copy: each vol. bound in contemporary full English red morocco; gold-stamped border "à la grecque" on boards; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; spine tooled in gold; title and vol. number stamped in gold on spine; green silk marker; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Each vol. housed in marbled paper slip-case.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, p. 213 (no. 775)

OCLC:

36139616