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The poetical works of John Milton : with the life of the author : in three volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3550 .E15 1815 v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Fiedler, Mary A. (autograph) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J. Forbes & Co., 1815.
- Notes:
- Paged continuously.
- The engravings (plates) are by Anderson.
- "Life of John Milton" signed: Elijah Fenton.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy imperfect: without plates; p. v-vi and 137-148 wanting.
- Milton Collection copy has ms. transcription of lines 53-56 of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" in pencil on verso of back free endpaper; ms. transcription of the beginning of line 53 of the same work in pencil on back pastedown.
- 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 of Mary A. Fiedler in brown ink on front pastedown and front free endpaper.
- Milton Collection copy bound in 1 vol. in half blind-tooled calf over marbled boards; gold-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("MILTON").
- Milton Collection copy: p. vii-[2] detached from spine.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, no. 1818 (v. 1 only)
- OCLC:
- 5906133
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