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The poetical works of John Milton : with a memoir, and seven embellishments by Fuseli, Westall, and Martin.

LIBRA Rare PR3552 1841
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.
Contributor:
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, illustrator.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836, illustrator.
Martin, John, 1789-1854, illustrator.
Chidley, John James, active 1840-1847, publisher.
Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Poems
Language:
English
Latin
Penn Provenance:
Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy PR3552 1841)
Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy PR3552 1841)
Spicer, Hannah Webb, 1797-1863 (autograph) (Milton Collection copy PR3552 1841)
Clutterbuck, Sophia Spicer, 1835-1906 (inscription) (Milton Collection copy PR3552 1841)
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 527, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London : J.J. Chidley, 123, Aldersgate Street, 1841.
Language Note:
English and Latin.
Contents:
Memoir of John Milton
Paradise lost
Paradise regained
Samson Agonistes
Comus
Lycidas
L'allegro
Il penseroso
Arcades
Sonnets
Odes
Miscellanies
Translations
Poemata
Elegiarum liber
Epigrammatum liber
Silvarum liber.
Local Notes:
Milton Collection copy PR3552 1841 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran. Dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("For my very dear Sophia from her aff: Mother, HM: T. Spicer November 30:th 1853 Dover") on front free endpaper recording the gift of this volume from Hannah Maria Theresa Spicer (née Webb; 1797-1863) to her daughter Sophia Ellen Spicer (later Clutterbuck; 1835-1906).
OCLC:
51765700

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