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[MILTON, John]. Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib. [London: Thomas Underhill, 1644].
Small 4° (179 x 138mm). 4 leaves (A4). Drop-title. Red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere. Provenance: W.A. White (inscribed and dated in pencil 'Quaritch in NY, July 1, 1920'); Arthur A. Houghton, Jnr. (sold in our rooms June 11, 1980, lot 309).
FIRST EDITION. Grolier Wither to Prior 567; Wing M2132; Pforzheimer 715; Coleridge p. 47 (there is no copy in the Alexander Turnbull Library); Parker, Milton p. 885 lists 28 copies in 22 libraries, but only the present copy in private hands. Only one other copy has been sold at auction in the last 40 years.
Small 4° (179 x 138mm). 4 leaves (A4). Drop-title. Red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere. Provenance: W.A. White (inscribed and dated in pencil 'Quaritch in NY, July 1, 1920'); Arthur A. Houghton, Jnr. (sold in our rooms June 11, 1980, lot 309).
FIRST EDITION. Grolier Wither to Prior 567; Wing M2132; Pforzheimer 715; Coleridge p. 47 (there is no copy in the Alexander Turnbull Library); Parker, Milton p. 885 lists 28 copies in 22 libraries, but only the present copy in private hands. Only one other copy has been sold at auction in the last 40 years.