About Historical & Political Works

By John Milton

Published in 1698

Published only one year after the first complete collected edition. With engraved frontis portrait of Milton by William Faithorne, separate title pages, and a life of the author by Thomas Raulins. Includes a Life of Milton. Bound in is The History of Britain, Five Tracts Relating to Church=Government, Four Tracts Concerning Divorce, The Judgment of Martin Bucer, Concerning Divorce, and his monumental treatise on the freedom of the press, Areopagitica, with its famous conclusion: “”Give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”