The Prose Works of John Milton (5 Volumes) Bohn's Standard Library

The Prose Works of John Milton

With a preface, preliminary remarks, and notes by James Augustus St. John, a British journalist, writer, and traveller.

Published by George Bell and Sons, London, Complete in five volumes. (published in 1877, 1875, 1875, 1875, 1877 respectively). Bohn's Standard Library. With a portrait frontispiece to volumes one, two, and three. Bohn's Standard Library stamped cloth bindings with gilt titles to spines.

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. 

CONDITION
A very good complete set. All five cloth bindings are in very good condition with no tears or stains. All bindings remain tight and square. With one oval ink stamp (Whitesheaf Recreation Club) to the front endpaper of each volume. All contents present to each volume and pages clean throughout. Some foxing to one of the frontispieces. No names or writing to the books. Overall a lovely complete set.

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