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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

St. Paul's Church-yard, London: Printed by G.Croom, for Joseph Watts at the Angel, 1692 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Fair full- leather with rubbed edges, chipping at top of spine, 1" split at bottom of front hinge; prior owner bookplate on fep; epp are age-tanned; text is clean & tight; nice copy overall but exterior is only fair.

London, printed by G. Croom for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1692. Hardcover. Recent full brown morocco. Preliminary blank browned, with inked notations and rice paper repair at chipped edges; wormhole at outside margin of first few leaves; rear blank browned with inked notation; lacks bottom corner of p. 131 and 161, not affecting text; small hole at bottom corner of p. 53, not affecting text; occasional marginal foxing; a few small faint dampstains in margins of first pages; marginal penciling and two lines underlined on p. 216; otherwise very good condition. . 238p. [Although Milton believed that the manuscript he edited was by Raleigh, the attribution is doubtful. Cf. William Riley Parker, "Milton", p. 516-517, and J. Shawcross, "Milton bibliography", 256.] ESTC citation no. R20812.

London: John Milton, 1692. Third Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, [8], 238, [2] pages. In Good condition. Quarter bound in tan leather, brown leather boards, paneled spine with a burgundy label and gilt lettering. Moderate rubbing to boards. Text block speckled red. Tape repair to both front and rear gutters, since separated. First two endpapers and last two endpapers loose within. Endpaper opposite title page has thirteen lines of handwritten notes. Bookplate on front pastedown. Interior clean. Rare advertisement leaf in rear. SS consignment. Shelved in Case 0. First issued as "The Cabinet-Council, Containing the Chief Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State; Discabinated in Political and Polemical Aphorisms" by John Milton in 1660. The unsold copies were re-issued by the publisher in 1661, omitting Milton's name from the title, together with his preface, presumably in order not to hinder sales following the proclamation of 1660 condemning the author's Pro populo Anglicano defensio.… Read More