Accession number
PML 961.1
Creator
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Published
London, : Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the signe of the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1645.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
In the last line of the imprint of some copies "S. Pauls" occurs without the "S."
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton by W[illiam]. M[arshall].
Leaf a1 is blank; p. [1] at end is blank.
First work to bear Milton's name in full.
Signatures: a⁴, A-G⁸ H⁴.
Poems in English, Greek, Italian and Latin.
"The Stationer to the Reader," signed Humph. Moseley.
The English title-page has "S" in the last line of the imprint: S. Pauls (see Fletcher I, 154 for reproductions of both states).
Frontispiece: Portrait of Milton engr. by William Marshall considered one of the two completely authentic ones of the author (Fletcher I, 153).
A separate title-page for the text of Comus, (p. 67-100) reads: A mask of the same author presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634. Before the Earl of Bridgewater then president of Wales. Anno Dom. 1645.
"Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. It was probably also issued separately (cf. Wing M2159). "A mask of the same author presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous (see Fletcher. Vol. I, p. 150).
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton by W[illiam]. M[arshall].
Leaf a1 is blank; p. [1] at end is blank.
First work to bear Milton's name in full.
Signatures: a⁴, A-G⁸ H⁴.
Poems in English, Greek, Italian and Latin.
"The Stationer to the Reader," signed Humph. Moseley.
The English title-page has "S" in the last line of the imprint: S. Pauls (see Fletcher I, 154 for reproductions of both states).
Frontispiece: Portrait of Milton engr. by William Marshall considered one of the two completely authentic ones of the author (Fletcher I, 153).
A separate title-page for the text of Comus, (p. 67-100) reads: A mask of the same author presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634. Before the Earl of Bridgewater then president of Wales. Anno Dom. 1645.
"Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. It was probably also issued separately (cf. Wing M2159). "A mask of the same author presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous (see Fletcher. Vol. I, p. 150).
Description
[8], 120 pages : port. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
E.G. Asay; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Modern quarter blue goatskin with blue cloth sides by Charlotte Ullman, 1968.
Classification
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