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Areopagitica : a speech by Mr. John Milton for the liberty of vnlicenc'd printing, to the Parliament of England

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Type of record: Book

Title: Areopagitica : a speech by Mr. John Milton for the liberty of vnlicenc'd printing, to the Parliament of England

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt/MIL

Creator(s): Milton, John (1608-1674)

Publication city: London

Date(s): Printed in the Yeare, 1644

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 40 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279648

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001016299705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

First edition, 2d state. Cf. Complete prose works of John Milton, 1953, v. 2, p. 480-483.


In this copy, p. 1, line 5 is without oblique mark and p. 5, line 29 has "unboekish" corrected to "unbookish"; p.12, line 32 "wayfaring" is uncorrected to "warfaring"; p. 36, line 4 has "treasures" corrected from "treasuves"; p. 39, lines 1-2 read "fore-judge" (with line-end hyphen); and the blank leaf is present at the end.


According to Shawcross, the printer may have been Augustine Matthews and the work dated November.


Printer unknown.


Signatures: A-E⁶, F² (F2 (blank) lacking).


Title within double rules.


Printed marginal note: p. 8.


Indexed in: Wing M2092, Shawcross 61.

Additional description

Bound with six other publications in a volume lettered: MILTON'S PROSE WORKS. Volume contents: 1. Milton, J.: Areopagitica, 1644. -- 2. Milton, J.: The doctrine and discipline of divorce, 1643. -- 3. Milton, J.: The doctrine and discipline of divorce, 1644. -- 4. Milton, J.: The judgement of Martin Bucer, 1644. -- 5. Milton, J.: Tetrachordon, 1645. -- 6. Anon.: An Answer to a book, intituled, The doctrine and discipline of divorce, 1644. -- 7. Milton, J.: Colasterion, 1645.

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