Shelfmark
Go.3.07
Author
Milton, John, 1608 - 1674 author.
Uniform title
[De doctrina Christiana. English]
Title
A treatise on Christian doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone; by John Milton ; translated from the original by Charles R. Sumner, M.A. Librarian and historiographer to His Majesty, and Prebendary of Canterbury..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Cambridge] : Printed at the Cambridge University Press, by J. Smith, Printer to the University : for Charles Knight, Pall Mall East. Sold also by Budd and Calkin, booksellers in ordinary to His Majesty, Pall Mall East; Ebers, Old Bond Street; Hurst and Robinson, Cheapside; Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, and St Paul's Church-Yard; booksellers extraordinary to His Majesty; Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; and Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh., 1825.
Physical description
xlii, 711, [5] p., [2] leaves of plates : facsims. ; 28 cm.
Note
Includes "Addenda et corrigenda" after the main text.
Provenance
Ex dono ms. note on third flyleaf: "E[x] donis C.R. Sumner S.S... [trimmed]".
Binding
19th-century calfskin over millboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets and blind roll to form a border; gilt roll on board-edges; blind roll on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and titling over black labels ("Milton on Christian doctrine"; "By C.R. Sumner"). Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled paper (pastedown and facing flyleaf); three flyleaves on the upper end of the textblock and two at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Former ?ECL shelfmark: GZa.2.3.
Subject
Theology, Doctrinal Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Sumner, Charles Richard, 1790 - 1874, Bishop of Winchester translator, former owner.
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Smith, John printer.
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Knight, Charles, 1791 - 1873 bookseller.
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Ebers, John, 1785? - 1830? bookseller.
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Rivingtons bookseller.
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J. Hatchard and Son bookseller.
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Hurst, Robinson, and Co. bookseller.
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Calkin and Budd bookseller.
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Waugh and Innes bookseller.
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Cambridge University Press publisher.
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England Cambridge.
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England London.
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Scotland Edinburgh.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B50935