[Rarebooks] FS: A literary attack on John Milton. Amsterdam: 1652

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[Rowland, John]. PRO REGE ET POPULO ANGLICANO APOLOGIA, Contra Johannis 
Polypragmatici, (Alias Miltoni Angli) Defensionem Destructivam, Regis & Populi 
Anglicani. Antwerp: Apud Hieronymum Verdussen. 1652. 12mo. (16),176pp. Large 
woodcut coat-of-arms on title. Cont. vellum, some light soiling.     $350.00
An early edition of this work, first published anonymously in 1651 by John 
Rowland (1606-1660). It is an attack on Milton’s PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO. 
Milton considered it too badly written to merit a direct reply but did rebut 
it through his nephew, John Phillips.

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