Areopagitica
by Milton, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Oxford at Clarendon, 1894. Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Edited with Introduction by John W. Hales. Small book, bendable red textured cloth, gilt lettering near fine on spine, 159 browned pages, light foxing inside covers and adjacent end papers, ink notes in margins, some ink underlining too. Very slight wear to tips, slight wear to spine edges. Good.
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
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23314
- Title
- Areopagitica
- Author
- Milton, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford at Clarendon
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Keywords
- Journalism Civil Rights Freedom Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essay; Journalism;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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