The Works of Mr. John Milton
1697. First Collected Edition.
[London:], 1697
Folio (12 1/4 x 8 inches). 568 pages. Floral decoration on title page. Contemporary full calf, sympathetically rebacked; boards tooled in blind with floral corner pieces; spine tooled in double ruled compartments in gilt with a burgundy morocco label. Binding shows light wear and rubbing with a few small abrasions.
First collected edition of the English prose works. Includes the following: “The Doctrin and Disciplin of Divorce,” “Tetrachordon,” “Colasterion,” “The Judgment of Martin Bucer Touching Divorce,” “Of Reformation touching Church-Disciplin in England,” “The Reasons of Church Government,” “A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes,” “Considerations touching the likeliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church,” “Of Prelatical Episcopacy,” “Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smetymnuus,” “An Appology against a Pamphlet call’d a Modest Confutation, &c.,” “The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free-Commonwealth,” “Areopagitica a Speech for the Liberty of the Press,” “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,” “Notes upon Dr. Griffith’s Sermon,” “Of True Religion, Heresy and Schism,” “Eiconoclastes,” “Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels, Scotch Irish Representation with Observations.”
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