Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Title: The Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State Discabineted. In Political and Polemical Aphorisms, Grounded on Authority and Experience. And Illustrated with the Choicest Examples and Historical Observations. By the Ever-Renowned Knight Sir Walter Raleigh, Published by John Milton Esq
Description: London, printed by G. Croom for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1692. Hardcover. Recent full brown morocco. Preliminary blank browned, with inked notations and rice paper repair at chipped edges; wormhole at outside margin of first few leaves; rear blank browned with inked notation; lacks bottom corner of p. 131 and 161, not affecting text; small hole at bottom corner of p. 53, not affecting text; occasional marginal foxing; a few small faint dampstains in margins of first pages; marginal penciling and two lines underlined on p. 216; otherwise very good condition. 238p. [Although Milton believed that the manuscript he edited was by Raleigh, the attribution is doubtful. Cf. William Riley Parker, "Milton", p. 516-517, and J. Shawcross, "Milton bibliography", 256.] ESTC citation no. R20812. .

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