Fine copy of the first appearance in print of Milton's private letters and earliest writing of Cambridge Prolusions while he was a student.<ul><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Londini [London]:&nbsp;Impensis Brabazoni Aylmeri sub Signo Trium Columbarum,&nbsp;1674.&nbsp;</li><li>155, [5] pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in modern period-style morocco, paneled spine with black label and gilt titling.</li></ul>

Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus

Fine copy of Milton's works.<ul><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>[London]:&nbsp;[S.n.],&nbsp;1697.&nbsp;</li><li>[10], 568, [2] pp.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Ownership inscription reading "Arch'd Kennedy" on title page.</li><li>Final blank endleaf present.</li><li>Includes 18 separate items, some with separate dated title page with imprint "Printed in the year MDCXCVII." Pagination and register are continuous.</li><li>Bound by Jon Robbins in modern period-style calf.</li></ul>

The Works of Mr. John Milton

A finely bound second Baskerville quarto edition of Paradise Lost.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Thomas Newton, D.D. (English).</li><li>Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the Text of Thomas Newton D.D., with Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. From the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D.</li><li>Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, MDCCLIX [1759].</li><li>Small quarto.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait.</li><li>Bound in near-contemporary straight-grained red morocco, with elaborate gilt spines and covers, with peony and other floral motifs, wheat, acorns and harp motifs, with gilt dentelles, all edges gilt.</li></ul>

Paradise Lost

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Milton&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Milton</a>'s Paradise Lost.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books.</li><li>London:&nbsp;T. Spilsbury and Son,&nbsp;1794.</li><li>Illustrated throughout. </li><li>Dedication to George Prince of Wales. </li><li>Red Morocco leather bound, gilt borders and decoration on cover, gilt panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, illustrated portrait frontispiece.</li></ul>

Finely bound set of Milton's works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Amsterdam:&nbsp;[S.n.],&nbsp;1698.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>3 Vols, Vol. 1: ([4], 5-48, iv, 120, [22], 139-270 p., 271-274 l., [2], 275-441, [1], p. 442, [1]. Vol. 2: [4], 443-528, 525-568, 545-812, [2], p. 819, 836-837, 822-872 p. Vol. 3: [4], 112, 105-363, [1] pages.</li><li>Title page in red and black.</li><li>Volume 3 has title: Joannis Miltoni opera omnia Latina.</li><li>Internal title pages in volumes 1 and 2 are dated 1694, and have continuous pagination and register.</li><li>Volume 1 includes index for The history of Britain.</li><li>The first leaf of Volume 3 is blank.</li><li>Bound in early full brown leather with blind tooling to boards, gilt ornamentation, and lettering to paneled spines.</li><li>Bindings of volumes 1 and 2 match, Vol. 3 is a similar binding with slightly more elaborate tooling.</li></ul>

A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> in English of John Milton's A Defence of the People of England.<ul><li>John Milton (English).&nbsp;</li><li>A Defence of the People of England, by John Milton: in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King.</li><li>1692.</li><li>(iii)(xxii)(i)246pp.(i), lacks the initial blank endleaf but includes the blank after xxii and last leaf of publisher's notes.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full speckled calf over cords, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine label.</li></ul> Translated from the Latin, Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio by Joseph Washington, in reply to Claude Saumaise's Defensio Regia pro Carolo I.

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