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Areopagitica (24 November) 1644 : preceded by illustrative documents
Title
Areopagitica (24 November) 1644 : preceded by illustrative documents / John Milton ; carefully edited by Edward Arber, Associate, King's College, London, F.R.G.S., &c.
Publication
London : [A. Murray?] 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, W.C., 1 March 1869.
Physical Description
80 pages ; 18 cm.
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library rare SSR M642 1869 copy purchased from Meyer Boswell Books in June 2023. Bound in vellum, crimson morocco labels, gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedwons, specially bound for Henry J.B. Clement with his gilt crests and bookplate.
Notes
Volume includes facsimile reproduction of original, including title pages.
Volume includes 49 unnumbered leaves at end.
Variant and related titles
Decree of Starre-chamber, concerning printing.
Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the regulating of printing.
Areopagitica: a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing to the Parlament of England.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 06, 2023
Series
English reprints ; [no. 1]
Contents
A decree of Starre-Chamber concerning printing, made the eleuenth day of July last past, 1637. (Imprinted in London by Robert Barker ... and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1637) (pages [7]-[24])
An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the regulating of printing, and for suppressing the great late abuses and frequent disorders in printing many false, scandalous, seditious, libellous and unlicensed pamphlets, to the great defamation of religion and government. Also, authorizing the masters and wardens of the Company of Stationers to make diligent search, seize and carry away all such books as they shall finde printed, or reprinted by any man having no lawfull interest in them, being entred into the hall book to any other man as his proper copies. Die Mercurii. 14 June. 1643. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this order shall be forthwith printed and published. J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum: Hen. Elsing Cler. D. Com. (London : Printed for I. Wright in the Old-baily. Iune 16. 1643) (pages [25]-28)
Areopagitica; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of vnlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England ... [Quotation from Euripid. Hicetid. with an English translation]. (London : Printed in the yeare, 1644) (pages [29]-80).
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Container of (manifestation): England. Court of Star Chamber. A decree of Starre-Chamber concerning printing.
Container of (manifestation): England and Wales. Parliament. An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the regulating of printing.
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