Freedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton mb-width 5025 It is raining

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Freedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton mb-width 5025 It is rainingFreedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton, 1644 (1956). The Areopagitica was a speech delivered by Milton in the House of Commons in favour of the liberty of unlicensed printing in England. From the Picture Post Library. A print from Ideas, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.