L'Allegro and Il Penseroso together with The Sonnets and Odes / by John Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Milton, John, 1608-1574.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.

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

Series:

Literary gems [4th series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[1], v, [1], 133, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 12 cm

Distribution:

New York : The Knickerbocker Press,

Other Title:

Allegro, Il Penseroso

Penseroso

Place of Publication:

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1912].

Notes:

Date from Wickenheiser.

"Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. Putnam's Sons"--Title page verso.

Frontispiece illustration signed Maud Humphrey '12' with protective tissue guard, title page printed in red and black. Half titles for L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Sonnets, and Odes.

Decorative head- and tailpieces throughout.

Local Notes:

PR3552.P8 1912 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has white vellum cloth boards with decorative gilt border trim on front cover with central emblem in gilt incorporating Literary Gems L'Allegro and Milton's name. Contains [3] pages of publisher's advertisements at end and decorative black and gilt endpapers. Top edge gilt stained. Shipping list laid in. Back free endpaper detached.

Cited in:

Wickenheiser, R. J. W. : Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2008, page 121, item 417.

Related Work:

Milton, John, 1608-1574. Penseroso.

OCLC:

1547943418