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The poetical works of John Milton.
LIBRA - Rare PR3551 .P32 1887 v.1-2
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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)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., MDCCCLXXXVII [1887]
- Contents:
- v. 1. Paradise lost
- v. 2. Paradise regained ; Samson agonistes ; Minor poems ; Comus ; Lycidas ; Sonnets ; Translations ; The Latin poems.
- Notes:
- Title pages printed in red and black with central emblem in black bearing the Latin inscription "Arbor Scientiae Arbor Vitae".
- "The Large Paper Edition of this book, consisting of fifty copies, all of which are numbered and signed, was printed in January 1887."
- Local Notes:
- PR3551.P32 1887 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittenreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has paper covers with many unopened leaves with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed and is no. 36 of limited edition of 50 copies with the signature of R. R. Clark. Volume is partially detached between pages 128-129.
- Cited in:
- Wickenheiser, R. K. Collection of John Milton, page 590 (item 2337).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Milton, John, 1608-1674. Poetical works of John Milton.
- OCLC:
- 7759851
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