The Poetical Works of John Milton : printed from the original editions with a Life of the Author / by A. Chalmers, M.A. F.S.A. with twelve illustrations, by R. Westall, R.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Chalmers, Alexander, 1759-1834, author.

Contributor:

Westall, Richard, 1765-1836, illustrator.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Biography.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Genre:

Biographies

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Longford, C. C. (autograph) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxix, [1], 699 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bickers and Son, 1881.

Contents:

Life of Milton

Commendatory Verses

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Samson Agonistes

Comus, a Mask

Lycidas

Il Penseroso

L'Allegro

Arcades

Miscellaneous Poems

Sonnets

Psalms

De Authore Testimonida

Elegiarum Liber

Epigrammatum Liber

Sylvarum Liber.

Notes:

Dark blue cloth boards with gilt rules on front cover surrounding illustration of the fall of Satan; all edges gilt. Contains numerous elaborately decorated head- and tailpieces and decorated initial letters.

The frontispiece portrait is after Fairthorne, engraved by Humphreys with tissue guard.

Title page printed in red and black.

Local Notes:

PR3550.E51 1881 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has 16 pages of publisher's advertisements dated October, 1880 bound in at back and the autograph of C. C. Langford Dec./81 on front free endpaper. Business card and map of Pendleburys The Bookshop in the Hills laid in.

OCLC:

58892119

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