Le paradis perdu / Milton ; traduction de Chateaubriand, précédé de réflexions sur la vie et les écrits de Milton par Lamartine, et enrichi de vingt-cinq magnifiques estampes originales gravées au burin sur acier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824, illustrator.

Flatters, Johann Jakob, 1784-1845, illustrator.

Richomme, Joseph Théodore, 1785-1849, illustrator.

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848, translator.

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869.

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

Standardized Title:

Paradise lost. French

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)

Physical Description:

xxx, 157 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 47 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : A. Rigaud, 1863.

Notes:

Prose translation of: Paradise lost.

Includes engravings after Girodet, Flatters, Lemercier, Richomme, Melin, Aubert and Bernouville; engravers include Delaistre, Gaillard, Dien, Conquy and more.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy imperfect: p. ix-xii wanting.

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Milton Collection copy: binding detached from textblock.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, no. 1068

OCLC:

191747822