Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

Cambridge, England: Deighton, Bell & Company, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number XXVII of 500 copies, of which 100 were bound in full morocco numbered I - C and 400 were bound in buckram and numbered 1 - 400. This speech by John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defenses of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications (truncated) of that right. [Wikipedia] Designed by Sebastian Carter and printed on Barcham Green mould-made paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Set in Palatino and Plantin types, with the initials in Grot R designed by Michael Harvey. Bound by John P. Gray and Son in original full black morocco, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g, others uncut. Spine lightly sunned and worn. Housed in the original, slightly rubbed and faded, purple cloth covered slipcase. Very good condition. Measures 9.5 x 13 inches. 49 pages plus colophon. PRI/111524. (Inventory #: 37615)