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Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Company, 1973. Limited edition of 500 copies of which 100 bound in full morocco and four hundred in buckram. This is an unnumbered copy from the 400 in buckram. Hardback. xiv, [xvi - xvii], 1 - 48, [4]pp. Top edge gilt. Label to spine. Book designed by Sebastian Carter & printed by him and Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press, Cambridge. Printed on mould-made paper from J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Binding by John P. Gray & Son of Cambridge. Introduction by Isabel Rivers. Notes to text at rear. Prose polemic from 1644 opposing licensing and censorship. This is an ex-library copy. Lacking slipcase. Book in good condition. A little light marking to boards. Front endpapers bear the usual scars of library tickets etc being removed. Front paste down has a 'withdrawn' sticker from East Sussex County Library. Rear free end paper has a small library ticket wallet towards lower edge. Faint pencil note to blank preceding half-title. Library Dewey decimal…
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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England Hardcover - 1973
by John Milton
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- Title Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
- Author John Milton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Limited Edition
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Deighton Bell and Company, Cambridge
- Date 1973
- ISBN 9780903700009 / 090370000X
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 74196897
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.445
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Areopagitica A Speech of Mr John Milton<br />For the Liberty of<br />Unlicensed Printing <br />to The Parliament<br />of England.
by Milton, John
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by Milton, John; Rivers, Isabel (intro and notes)
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Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Company 1973. 4to.Limited Edition. Limited edition. xiv, [2], 50 pp. Full black cloth with a terracotta leather title label bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Edges uncut. 1 of 400 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press. Some minor rubbing to the corners of binding and some light markings to the boards. Internally clean. 'Areopagitica, the most widely read of Milton's prose works, is justly famous for it's support of the principles of liberty of the press and religious toleration. As such it has come to be seen as in some ways the forerunner of ideas which, though much abused in practice, are basic to modern western democracies.' (from the introduction). 090370000X . Near Fine. Cloth. Limited Edition. 1973.
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Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., 1973. Hardback, full morocco, complete with slipcase. 33 x 25cm. xiv, [2], 48pp, [2]. Number 96 of 100 morocco bound copies, from a total edition of 500. Designed by Sebastian Carter, and printed by him and Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Contents clean and unmarked.
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