Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(DOVES PRESS.) Milton, John. Areopagitica. Printed in black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker. Small 4to, publisher's full limp gilt-lettered vellum, spine faded, light wear; scattered light ink splattering to deckles, bleeding into margins of a few leaves, mostly signature D. one of 300 unnumbered copies. one of the earliest and most important works on the freedom of speech and of a free press. Franklin 275; Tidcombe 12. (Hammersmith, 1907)