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Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the author John Milton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Milton, John, 1608-1674--Biography.
- Milton, John.
- Adam (Biblical figure)--Poetry.
- Adam.
- Eve (Biblical figure)--Poetry.
- Eve.
- Bible. Genesis--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
- Bible.
- Fall of man--Poetry.
- Fall of man.
- Adam (Biblical figure).
- Eve (Biblical figure).
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Bible. Genesis.
- History of Biblical events.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy PR3560 1760)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy PR3560 1760)
- Physical Description:
- lxx, [2], 350, [44] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- e-he ono- adns BeJe (3) 1760 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, B. Dod, J. Rivington, J. Ward, J. Richardson, S. Crowder and Co., T. Longman, E. Dilly, and A. and C. Corbet, MDCCLX [1760]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A¹² b-c¹² B-Q¹² R-S⁶ T⁶(-T6).
- Engraved plates: "frontispiece portrait engraved by J[ohn]. Miller (not always present, with the lyre and laurel leaves and not Adam and Eve), twelve illustrations engraved by [John] Miller after [Francis] Hayman (reduced)"--Wickenheiser.
- Woodcut tail-pieces.
- "Includes: 'The life of Milton' by Thomas Newton."--English short title catalogue.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy PR3560 1760 imperfect: leaves c2-c11, H2, H12 wanting; frontispiece plate (portrait) wanting; 3 plates (illustrations for books 1, 5, and 6) wanting.
- Milton Collection copy PR3560 1760 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran. Early manuscript notes on verso of back free endpaper.
- Milton Collection copy PR3560 1760: left board detached; many leaves detached and laid in; leaf C3 torn across upper portion; leaves G1-G2 torn across central portion; leaf H10 mutilated with substantial loss of text; head outer corner of leaf I1 torn off with some loss of text; leaf O1 mutilated at inner margin with some loss of text.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T133906
- Coleridge, K.A. Milton, 124
- Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, 700 (page 193)
- OCLC:
- 946737211
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