(Hammersmith: At the Doves Press, 1907).

A FINE AND BEAUTIFUL PRINTING FROM THE DOVES PRESS. This is the text of a speech delivered by Milton to Parliament on the liberty of unlicensed printing, which has since become a standard text on free speech and freedom of the press. A well-printed and handsome edition. Perhaps the first and greatest of all writings on the freedom of the press and speech. Item #28477

First edition thus, and from a small but unspecified printing by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Small 4to, original Doves soft vellum lettered on the spine in gilt. 74, [1] pp. A fine copy, the text clean and fresh with just the lightest hint of the toning associated with this title, the vellum in excellent order with just a bit of the natural mottling normal to the material.