Complete Prose Works of John Milton, Volume Seven

New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1980. Revised Edition. Large octavo with navy cloth boards and gilt spine title; DJ is near fine, slightest shelfwear; a near fine copy, clean and tight with very minor bumping to right corner and head/foot of spine. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300020155

"This new edition undertakes to present all of Milton's prose in chronological sequence, with full notes and introductions, and to trace Milton's intellectual developmen in the setting of seventeenth century intellectul and political history. The Complete Prose Works will represent the accumulated scholarship in the field, with texts collated with the definitive texts of English works and new translations of Latin, facsimile title pages from original editions, and the variant interpretations of controversial points. This seventh of eight volumes contains A Treatise of Civil Power, Considerations Toughing the Likeliest Means, A Letter to a Friend, Proposalls of Certaine Expedients, The Readie and Easie Way (first and second editions), The Present Means and Brief Delineations of a Free Commonwealth, Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon, and Milton's Private Correspondence." --Jacket copy