Edition : Third edition. , Recent � calf with marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments of gilt-tooled bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt red and brown morocco labels on two and three, edges tinted red, endpapers renewed. , Third collected edition of Milton?s prose, with a biography by Thomas Birch. ?In this new Edition of Milton?s Prose Works, the Pieces are disposed according to the Order in which they were first printed; with the addition of a Tract omitted by Mr. Toland, concerning the Reason of the War with Spain in 1655, and several Pages in the History of Britain, expunged by the Licensers of the Press, and not to be met with in any former Edition. To make the work more complete, the Editor has compiled a full and faithful Account of the Author?s Life; containing besides the Particulars given us by Toland, and other Authors, many never before printed, with several Pieces now first published from the original Manuscripts of Milton. To which is prefixed a curious Head of the Author, engraven by Mr. Vertue from a Drawing by Mr. Richardson, after a bust done for the Author in his life-time. To the Work is subjoined a large Alphabetical Index, which no other Edition has; and the Impression is much more beautiful and correct than any hitherto published.? -- Advertisement to the Reader., Size : Folio, Title in red and black. With a frontispiece bust portrait of John Milton., Volume : Two volumes. , References : Bateson I:466; Coleridge 74., P. frontis, title, advertisement, tracts, xcvii, 628; title, tracts, 617, index [24]. Occasional light foxing and browning, otherwise a very good and tight set.

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Title: A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton: Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; Containing several Original Papers of His Never before Published
Publisher: A. Millar. c. 1738., London
Publication Date: 1738
Binding: Hardcover

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