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London, Brabazoni Aylmeri, 1674. In 8°. Full vellum binding. Handwritten title in brown ink on spine. Red sprayed edges. Framed title page. Errata on f. K6v. Light browning.
Specialist Notes
FIRST RARE EDITION .
"This rare work contains the first appearance in print of Milton's private letters as well as his earliest writing, the 'Cambridge Prolusions,' written when he was a student" (Wickenheiser, p. 99).
"Shortly before his death, Milton assembled and prepared for print a collection of his private correspondence in Latin, dating from the 1620s, with friends, pupils, and acquaintances, both in England and in the humanist community of continental Europe. The letters demonstrate the eloquence of his less public neo-Latin" (Corns, pp. 111-112, translated).
ESTC R1351; Coleridge 23; Wing M2117; Shawcross 317. Thomas N. Corns, ed., The Milton Encyclopedia, 2012; Robert J. Wickenheiser, The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina, 2008.
"This rare work contains the first appearance in print of Milton's private letters as well as his earliest writing, the 'Cambridge Prolusions,' written when he was a student" (Wickenheiser, p. 99).
"Shortly before his death, Milton assembled and prepared for print a collection of his private correspondence in Latin, dating from the 1620s, with friends, pupils, and acquaintances, both in England and in the humanist community of continental Europe. The letters demonstrate the eloquence of his less public neo-Latin" (Corns, pp. 111-112, translated).
ESTC R1351; Coleridge 23; Wing M2117; Shawcross 317. Thomas N. Corns, ed., The Milton Encyclopedia, 2012; Robert J. Wickenheiser, The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina, 2008.
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