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The Globe Edition
Publisher: Macmillan & Company.
Place: London, United Kingdom. Date: 1864-1976.
The Poetical Works of John Milton
by John Milton. Edited by David Masson.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1903 (The Globe Edition).
Hardcover, with publisher's original green cloth covers and gilt lettering to the spine and upper panel. Size: Octavo. Pages: 625, 2.
THE GLOBE EDITION (MACMILLAN & CO.)
Series Note: The Globe Edition (sometimes known as the Globe Library) was a series of carefully edited and attractively printed classics which were used as college textbooks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see for example, the English literature text lists in the 1910 Calendar of the University of Sydney).
The Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue of September 1874 described the series thus:
"...the aim of the publishers of the Globe Library has been to make it possible for the universal kin of English-speaking men to hold communion with the loftiest “spirits of the mighty dead;” to put within the reach of all classes complete and accurate editions, carefully and clearly printed upon the best paper, in a convenient form, at a moderate price, of the works of the MASTER-MINDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, and occasionally of foreign literature in an attractive English dress.
The Editors, by their scholarship and special study of their authors, are competent to afford every assistance to readers of all kinds: this assistance is rendered by original biographies, glossaries of unusual or obsolete words, and critical and explanatory notes."
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ANON.
An Atlas of the European States
Morte d’Arthur
ARNOLD
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
BOSWELL
Boswell’s Life of Johnson
BURNS
Poems, Songs, and Letters, Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns
CHAUCER
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
COLERIDGE
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
COWPER
The Poetical Works of William Cowper
DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
DRYDEN
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
EVELYN
The Diary of John Evelyn
FROISSART
The Chronicles of Froissart
GOLDSMITH
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
HOMER
The Illiad of Homer
HORACE
The Works of Horace Rendered into English Prose
KEATS
The Poetical Works of John Keats
MILTON
The Poetical Works of John Milton
POPE
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
ROSSETTI
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
SCOTT
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
SHAKESPEARE
The Works of William Shakespeare
SPENSER
The Complete Works of Edmund Spenser
The Globe Edition Complete Works of Edmund Spenser
SHELLEY
The Poetical Works of Percy Shelley
TENNYSON
Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
VIRGIL
The Works of Virgil Rendered into English Prose
WORDSWORTH
Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth
Author: David Paul Wagner