MILTON, John. Paradise Lost . London: S. Simmons, 1678. 8°, with the penultimate but lacking the final blank (lacks engraved portrait, another, by Vertue, substituted, rather browned and spotted throughout, many headlines shaved). 18th-century polished calf, black label on spine (rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). Third edition. Wing M2145; Grolier 606. MILTON, John. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that it is Lawfull ... to call to Account a ... Wicked King ... and put him to Death . London: Matthew Simmons, 1649. 4° (178 x 123mm), title within a typographical border (margins cut close affecting a few signatures and catchwords, browning, occasionally severe). Late 19th-century polished calf gilt. Provenance : as above. FIRST EDITION of 'This tract ... omitted from all the editions of Milton's prose works until that of 1806, for the reason that the nature of its contents would have made its possession a treasonable offence after the Restoration', Grolier 574; Wing M2181. With 2 others, Francis Bacon's The Essayes (London, 1639) and Historia naturalis ... de ventis (Amsterdam, 1662). (4)
MILTON, John. Paradise Lost . London: S. Simmons, 1678. 8°, with the penultimate but lacking the final blank (lacks engraved portrait, another, by Vertue, substituted, rather browned and spotted throughout, many headlines shaved). 18th-century polished calf, black label on spine (rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). Third edition. Wing M2145; Grolier 606. MILTON, John. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that it is Lawfull ... to call to Account a ... Wicked King ... and put him to Death . London: Matthew Simmons, 1649. 4° (178 x 123mm), title within a typographical border (margins cut close affecting a few signatures and catchwords, browning, occasionally severe). Late 19th-century polished calf gilt. Provenance : as above. FIRST EDITION of 'This tract ... omitted from all the editions of Milton's prose works until that of 1806, for the reason that the nature of its contents would have made its possession a treasonable offence after the Restoration', Grolier 574; Wing M2181. With 2 others, Francis Bacon's The Essayes (London, 1639) and Historia naturalis ... de ventis (Amsterdam, 1662). (4)
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