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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / by John Milton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3560 1788
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm (18mo)
- Fingerprint:
- i-th r.3. l.s. *HBe (3) 1788 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Joseph Wenman ..., MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
- Contents:
- The life of Mr. John Milton / Elijah Fenton
- Postscript
- In Paradisum amissam summi poetae Joannis Miltoni / Samuel Barrow
- On Paradise lost / Andrew Marvell
- The verse
- Paradise lost.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-2E⁶ 2F².
- Leaf M1 unsigned.
- Engraved plate (frontispiece illustration).
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy has ms. note in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy bound in quarter roan over marbled boards; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; spine tooled in gold and blind; author's surname and brief title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges speckled brown; light blue silk marker.
- Milton Collection copy: leaf Y1 bound in out of order after leaf Y5.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T133899
- OCLC:
- 25277782
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