Lives of edward and john philips, nephews and pupils of milton. Including various particulars of the literary and political history of their times

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[2], v-xv, [1], 410pp, [2]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece (of John Bradshaw) and two further engraved portraits (of William Lilly and Titus Oates), and a terminal blank; without half-title. Handomely bound in nineteenth-century red gilt-lettered half-morocco, marbled boards. Very slightly rubbed to extremities; some marking, base of spine neatly and expertly furbished. With the armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP. A crisp, well margined copy of the first edition of English political philosopher and novelist William Godwin's (1756-1836) bio-bibliography of the life and works of John Milton's two nephews (and pupils) Edward (b.1630, d. c1696) and John Phillips (1631-c.1706). Published in the week that the Battle of Waterloo was fought, what appears on first sight a work of pure antiquarianism, in which Godwin enlarged the canon of the Phillips' brother's published work by a factor of ten, this work was also an innovative and decidedly political publication. Writing the history of the seventeenth-century, and especially the Restoration, through the lives of John Milton's sisters sons allowed Godwin to explore his concerns with the nationalism of his own age. As William St. Clair noted, 'Godwin was commenting on anti-Jacobin English as much as on the nation's last great political reaction'. N° de ref. del artículo AQ19613

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