AREOPAGITICA; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Library of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England.

First edition thus, and from a small but unspecified printing by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Small 4to, original Doves soft vellum lettered on the spine in gilt. 74, [1] pp. A fine copy, the text clean and fresh with just the lightest hint of the toning associated with this title, the vellum in excellent order with just a bit of the natural mottling normal to the material.

Edizione: a fine and beautiful printing from the doves press. this is the text of a speech delivered by milton to parliament on the liberty of unlicensed printing, which has since become a standard text on free speech and freedom of the press. areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right. delivered at the height of the english civil war. it takes its title in part from areopagitikos, a speech written by athenian orator isocrates in the 4th century bc. <br> this is a well-printed and very handsome edition, and one would expect nothing less from the famed doves press.