A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works.

MILTON, John.  A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.  Two volumes.

London: A. Millar, 1738. Folios. Contemporary calf, matched period rebacking. Engraved frontispiece, (iv), xcvii, (1), 628; (iv), 617, (1), (24) pages. Third collected edition.

Milton's works were first collected in 1698 in  an Amsterdam edition.  The 1738 edition contains a life of Milton by Thomas Birch as well as a number of prose works omitted from the previous editions, here printed for the first time directly from manuscripts.  There is also a new frontispiece engraving by Vertue from a drawing by Richardson of a life bust of the author.  In colonial Virginia, the work was found in the libraries of J. Custus, R. Carter, and Landon Carter.  It was also advertised in Williamsburg's Virginia Gazette.  Professionally rebacked.  The title leaves of both volumes are browned, as is common

 

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