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MILTON, JOHN. Tetrachordon: Expositions upon The foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Mariage, or nullities in Mariage...Wherein the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd...London: Printed in the yeare 1645. Small 4to, brown half calf, spine gilt, bottom rule of title-page shaved and last two digits in imprint date just touched, a catchword cropped on [A4], fore-margins of B1 & B2 cut close, final blank not preserved. FIRST EDITION. Wing M-2184. Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart.
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MILTON, JOHN. Tetrachordon: Expositions upon The foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Mariage, or nullities in Mariage...Wherein the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd...London: Printed in the yeare 1645. Small 4to, brown half calf, spine gilt, bottom rule of title-page shaved and last two digits in imprint date just touched, a catchword cropped on [A4], fore-margins of B1 & B2 cut close, final blank not preserved. FIRST EDITION. Wing M-2184. Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart.
The fourth and last of Milton's four divorce tracts, containing his fullest statement on divorce and his intense plea for human liberty: "The law is to tender the liberty and human dignity of them that live under the law."
The fourth and last of Milton's four divorce tracts, containing his fullest statement on divorce and his intense plea for human liberty: "The law is to tender the liberty and human dignity of them that live under the law."
