1738 2 Volume Milton’s Works Leather Bound

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A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With … more A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; Containing several Original Papers of His, Never before Published.

1738

A. Millar : London

12.5" by 8.5",

xcvii, 628; (2), 617, (24) pp

Bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration.

Complete in Two Volumes.

Includes An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton by Thomas Birch.

"In this new Edition of Milton's Prose Works, the Pieces are disposed according to the Order in which they were first printed... To make the Work more complete, the Editor has compiled a full and faithful Account of the Author's Life; containing besides the Particulars given us by Toland, and other Authors, many never before printed, with several Pieces now first published from the original Manuscripts of Milton... To the Work is subjoined a large Alphabetical Index, which no other Edition has; and the Impression is much more beautiful and correct than any hitherto published." From the Advertisement to the Reader.

With an engraved portrait frontispiece of John Milton.

The title pages are in red and black.

With the armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns, and ink signature to the title pages, of Ex Liberis of Messenger family

Thomas Birch, 1705 – 1766, was an English historian. "In 1732 Birch was appointed to the General Dictionary, Historical and Critical... Separate historical works also grew out of the General Dictionary. First came The Works of Mr John Greaves (1737) followed by the complete collection of the works of John Milton (1738) and the massive seven-volume compilation of the state papers of John Thurloe (1742)." (DNB) less