Paradise regain'd : a poem in four books : to which is added Samson Agonistes : and Poems upon several occasions : with a Tractate of education / the author John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller.

Poulson, Mary, bookseller.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy PR3550 .D13 1725)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy PR3550 .D13 1725)

Aldis, Mary (autograph) (Milton Collection copy PR3550 .D13 1725)

Physical Description:

[6], 352 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 17 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The sixth edition, corrected.

Fingerprint:

1006 anst n?im InGo (3) 1725 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand : And for M. Poulson, MDCCXXV [1725]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]1-3 B-P¹² Q⁸.

Engraved illustration (plate?).

Woodcut factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Issued in two impressions; for a full description of each, see Coleridge.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy PR3550 .D13 1725 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran. Copy is Coleridge's first impression. Manuscript inscription (struck through) on blank leaf preceding frontispiece; dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Mary Aldis 1838") on blank leaf preceding frontispiece. Left board wanting; right board partially detached.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, T134212

Wickenheiser, R.J. Collection of John Milton, 1537-1538

Coleridge, K.A. Descriptive catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, 188

OCLC:

6212735