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[Broadside] AREOPAGITICA [and] TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
by Milton, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ binding
- Seller
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925. Broadside. Very Good+ binding. Bifolium. 12" x 8.5". [4] pp. Minor toning to the edges, only. Extract of Milton's Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) is printed on the recto of the first leaf; on the recto of the other leaf is a letter "To the President of the United States" in which Nash uses Milton's argument related to freedom of the press to Prohibition. Milton writes: "For those actions which enter into a man, rather than issue out of him, and therefore defile not, God uses not to captivate under a perpetual childhood of prescription, but trusts him with the gift of reason to be his own chooser; there were but little work left for preaching, if law & compulsion should grow so fast upon those things which heretofore were governed only by exhortation." Nash concludes his letter: "Do you not agree with me that John Milton would have blotted no single line of this paragraph in Areopagitica had he been told that his argument would be applied to that strange experiment that we call Prohibition?" Scarce in the trade. Only three located in institutional holdings (OCLC: 11181983).
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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- Seller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 7531
- Title
- [Broadside] AREOPAGITICA [and] TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
- Author
- Milton, John
- Format/Binding
- Broadside
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Henry Nash
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ephemera;
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Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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