Half-title (pi1r with port. on verso) reads "Miltons historical and political works". There is a variant with an additional half-title (²pi1r) with verso blank which precedes "The life of Milton," but that page is not present in this copy.

ESTC R19720; Wing M2087; Shawcross, J. Milton, 395; Coleridge, 73.

Folio, three volumes. Bound in early full brown leather with blind tooling to boards, gilt ornamentation and lettering to paneled spines. Bindings of volumes 1 and 2 match; volume 3 is a similar binding with slightly more elaborate tooling. With repairs and rebacking. Shelf wear, chipping, scratching to boards. Text blocks age-toned and foxed with scattered light damp staining and scattered small stains. A few scattered marking to endpapers and margins of all three volumes. Internal title pages in volumes 1 and 2 are dated 1694. Volumes 1 and 2 have continuous pagination and register.

CONTENTS: Vol. 1 ([4], 5-48, iv, 120, [22], 139-270 p., 271-274 l., [2], 275-441, [1], p. 442, [1] pages) Open tear to lower corner of p. 27-28. Archival repair to closed tears on p. 31-32. Small open tear to upper fore edge margin of p. 85-6. Closed tear to lower margin of p. 337, impacting text but not legibility. This volume includes the index for "The history of Britain." -- Vol. 2 ([4], 443-528, 525-568, 545-812, [2], p. 819, 836-837, 822-872 pages) -- Vol. 3: ([4], 112, 105-363, [1] pages) Some cracking to joints. Damp staining to upper edge of text block throughout, and scattered annotations to text. The first leaf of the volume is blank. Small open tear to upper corner of p. 109-110. Several open tears to blank endpapers at the end of volume. Title page in red and black. This volume has the title: Joannis Miltoni opera omnia Latina.

JR Consignment. Shelved Room G.

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