1848-1858 The Prose Works of John Milton

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in five volumes. Bohn's Standard Library. With a portrait frontispiece to volumes one, two, and three. A collection of the prose works of John Milton, an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant best known for his 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse. Volume one contains A Defence of the People of England, the Second Defence of the People of England, and Eikonoklastes. Volume two contains The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Areopagitica, Tracts on the Commonwealth, and more. Volume three contains Apology for Smectymnuus, the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Familiar Letters, and more. Volume four contains the first book of A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, translated by Charles R. Sumner. New edition. Volume five contains the second book of A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, translated by Charles R. Sumner. New edition. With a preface, preliminary remarks, and notes by James Augustus St. John, a British journalist, writer, and traveller. Previously held in the library of R. E. M. Maddison, a British doctor of philosophy.