Areopagitica
by John Milton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Milverton, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1949. Book. Good. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 118pp. A speech for the liberty of unlicenced printing. With introduction and notes by H.B.Cotterill,M.A. Red cloth cover, spine slightly faded, name of previous owner on the first page, otherwise clean and firm inside and out..
Synopsis
Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England is John Milton's famous tract against censorship. Published in 1644, Areopagitica is named after a speech by Isocrates, a fifth century BC Athenian orator. The work is counted as one of the most influential and inspired defenses of the right to freedom of expression in history. It is also a personal issue for Milton who was submitted to censorship himself when he tried to publish his defenses of divorce, radical works for the time that gained no quarter with censors. Distributed as a pamphlet, Milton's powerful arguments against 1643's Licensing Order note that classical Greek and Roman society was never subjected to such censorship, and he uses many classical and biblical references to reinforce his argument.
Reviews
My views are as nothing because of the established importance of this work over the centuries. I hope its precepts, the freedom to publish and print and almost the freedom to think will be observed, without these being whittled away as they may be in some countries and some establiched bodies even in the twenty-first century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Wessex Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2972
- Title
- Areopagitica
- Author
- John Milton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Essays Literature Non Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and History; Essays;
Terms of Sale
West Wessex Books
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About the Seller
West Wessex Books
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Milverton, Somerset
About West Wessex Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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