The Poetical Works of John Milton / illustrated by F. Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Gilbert, Frederick, 1827-1902, illustrator.

Curran, Stuart A., honoree.

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, donor.

Jones, John, approximately 1833-1923, bookseller.

Owens, William Lewis, 1869-1893, autographer.

John Dicks (Firm), publisher.

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

Series:

Dick's English Classics

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--17th century.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Physical Description:

[4], 162, [4] pages : illustration ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Milton poetical works

Milton's poems

Place of Publication:

London : John Dicks, [1894?]

Contents:

Sketch of the Life of John Milton

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Comus

Samson Agonistes

Odes

Arcades

Lycidas

L'Allegro

Il Penseroso

Sonnets

Miscellanies

Translations

Latin Poems. Elegiarum Liber; Epigrammatum Liber; Sylvanrum Liber.

Notes:

Text printed in 2 columns.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare PR3551.G5 1894 copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021. Copies have only frontispiece illustration "The Temptation" consisting of portrait of Milton in the upper half and the temptation of Eve by the snake in the lower half with an angel carrying a sword on the right side. Copy 1 has dark green boards with a portrait of Milton and his signature in blind on front cover; spine lettered in gilt. The contents page is at the back with [2] pages of publisher's advertisements. Copy 2 has marbled paper covered boards with green leatherette spine rules and stamped in gilt with title "Milton and leatherette covered corners. The contents page precedes the text and there are no publisher's advertisements.

LIBRA Rare PR3551.G5 1894 copy 3 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2022. Paper edition featuring a cover portrait of Milton as he appears in the frontispiece and an advertisement for the silent sewing machine on the back. Contents page is at back with [2] pages of publisher's advertisements and [3] pages of "Observations on Indigestion". numerous advertisements and [4] uncut leaves in the Translations section.

LIBRA Rare PR3551.G5 1894 copy 4 presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2024. Paper edition featuring a cover portrait of Milton as he appears in the frontispiece and an advertisement for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence on back wrapper; other advertisements on inside front and back wrappers. Contents pages at end followed by [8] pages of advertisements. Autograph ("William Lewis Owens May 6th 1882"), probably of William Lewis Owens (1869-1893) on cover. Oval blue ink stamp ("JOHN JONES BOOKSELLER ABERAYRON") on verso of frontispiece portrait. Manuscript date ("ca. 1865") on title leaf.

OCLC:

29892714