Notes
Hyde’s illustrations are noticed in Marcia Pointon Milton & English Art (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970), p. 245, and by Joseph A. Wittreich, “Illustrators,” in William B. Hunter, Jr., gen. ed., A Milton Encyclopedia, 9 vols. (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1978), IV, 75. Maynard’s illustrations are referred to in John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Indianapolis: Odyssey, 1957), p. 547. Medley’s illustrations are cited by Roger Bertoud, “Searching for the Image of Milton,” Milton Quarterly 15 (1981), 72. Some of the Medley illustrations are reproduced in Wittreich, Interpreting Samson Agonistes (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1986).
The text was issued by Fuseau Charge de Laine (Paris) on May 10, 1939. Henri Colas was responsible for the typography, and Edmond Rigal executed the engravings. Daniel Sargent wrote the accompanying endnote.