Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 222

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[TOLAND, JOHN.] Amyntor; or, A Defence of Milton's Life. [4], 172 pages. 8vo, 189x121 mm, modern blind-ruled leather in period style, spine faded; marginal browning at beginning and end, worming in blank lower inner corners of opening leaves, dampstain in lower inner corner of gathering E and on free endpapers. London: printed and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699

Additional Details

first edition of a catalogue of 70 early Christian texts spuriously attributed to Christ, Mary, and the apostles, together with a defense of the claim Toland made in his 1698 life of Milton that the Eikon Basilike was written by John Gauden instead of Charles I. Madan 177; Shawcross 1591; Wing 1760.