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Eragny Press.- Milton (John) Areopagitica: A Speech...for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England, second impression, one of 160 copies, printed in red & black, in double column, wood-engraved border and initials by Esther Pissarro after Lucien Pissarro title and first leaf of text lightly browned, free endpapers very browned, bookplate of E.C.Simpson, original floral patterned-paper boards, uncut, a little rubbed and browned, trace of small label at foot of upper cover, 4to, 1904. ⁂ The first impression was mostly destroyed by a fire at the binders, apart from a sample copy and 40 unbound copies; this second impression was issued six months later. It is the only Eragny book printed in double column.