Apr 14, 2003 - Sale 1968

Sale 1968 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 1,035
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MILTON, JOHN. Areopagitica: A Speech . . . for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing, to the Parliament of England. First published in the Year 1644. With a Preface, by another Hand [i. e., James Thomson]. viii, 58, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, later drab wrappers. London: A. Millar, 1738

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Second edition. "The most perfect literary expression on freedom of the press and the most widely quoted work on the subject"--McCoy M378. Bigmore & Wyman II, 43; Printing and the Mind of Man 133 (1644 original edition).