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Milton, John (1608-1674) A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works.
Amsterdam [i.e. London]: no printer, 1698.
First collected edition, containing additional material not published in the 1697 prose works; three folio volumes bound as one, engraved author portrait frontispiece, general title printed in red and black, with half-title present before general title, and divisional titles for second and third part; bound in full contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, new endleaves and pastedowns; ex libris J. Wright, 1724; T. Beale Cooper, Justice of the Peace, of Mansion House, Bengeworht, near Evesham, circa 1843 with dated signature and bookplate; and Bache-Matthews, with bookplate; bookseller's ticket of A. Holden of Exeter inside front board, purchased from Quaritch in 1969, with condition note inside back board initialed by Nicholas Poole Wilson; marginal notations likely by the circa 1724 owner Wright; 12 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.
