Lot 31
  • 31

[Milton, John].

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England. for Thomas Underhill, 1641
4to, first edition, errata leaf (signed A2 together with catch-word) and final blank (N2) present, page 75 misnumbered 73, early twentieth-century red morocco by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, gilt edges, small hole to I1



first edition of the first of milton's anti-episcopal pamphlets, traditionally regarded as his earliest prose work.

Provenance

Thomas Edward Watson, armorial bookplate

Literature

Coleridge 42; Grolier Wither to Prior 556;  Wing M 2134

Condition

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