MILTON, JOHN. Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing to the Parliament of England. London 1644. Small 4to, 179 x 140mm. (7 1/16 x 5 1/2in.), modern calf finely gilt panelled in antique style, calf gilt box, ruled frame of title and a few headlines just shaved, lacks final blank leaf, inner margin of title leaf strengthened. FIRST EDITION. Pforzheimer 707; PMM 133; Wing M2092. The classic document in defense of the freedom of the press. "What we owe to Milton first and foremost is the isolation of the freedom of the press from all the other forms of toleration, especially religious toleration, disputed and advocated at the time; it is this, and the vigour of the matchless prose in which it was advocated, that give Milton's words their life today"-- Printing and the Mind of Man.
MILTON, JOHN. Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing to the Parliament of England. London 1644. Small 4to, 179 x 140mm. (7 1/16 x 5 1/2in.), modern calf finely gilt panelled in antique style, calf gilt box, ruled frame of title and a few headlines just shaved, lacks final blank leaf, inner margin of title leaf strengthened. FIRST EDITION. Pforzheimer 707; PMM 133; Wing M2092. The classic document in defense of the freedom of the press. "What we owe to Milton first and foremost is the isolation of the freedom of the press from all the other forms of toleration, especially religious toleration, disputed and advocated at the time; it is this, and the vigour of the matchless prose in which it was advocated, that give Milton's words their life today"-- Printing and the Mind of Man.
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