1652 Angli Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio

Description

Early Edition, Limited Edition, Scarce

In the original Latin.

First published the year prior, this is an unauthorised continental edition - one of a number of such unauthorised editions - with a false imprint. While stating that it was produced in London, it is believed this work was printed in Gouda by G. de Hoeve.

Published as a response to Defensio Regia pro Carolo I by Claudius Salmasius, which defended the executed King Charles I, Milton contends that the people have the right to hold their ruler accountable and depose a tyrant.

ESTC No R18974

With the collation A-H12. Collated, complete.

Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.

A former owner has hand-coloured the title page vignette and first letter of page 2, and first letter of page 17.

This tract helped establish Milton’s reputation as a political thinker as well as a poet.