Epicurus's morals: collected partly out of his own Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the rhapsodies of Marcus Antonius, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca. And faithfully Englished

Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
London : Printed for H. Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower-walk of the New Exchange, MDCLXX [1670]

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Summary:
Third English edition of the first English translation of Epicurus's Morals.
Author/Creator:
Epicurus , author
Contributors:
Queens' Binder B , binder
Herringman, Henry, -1704 , publisher
Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707 , translator
Binding Collection
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Enchiridion [by Epicurus] (English; Charleton)
Included Works:
Apology for Epicurus [by Charleton, W.]
Subjects:
Ethics — Greece — Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Ancient — Early works to 1800
Ethics
Philosophy, Ancient
Greece
Genres:
Somber bindings (Binding) — England — 17th century
Blind tooled bindings (Binding) — England — 17th century
Morocco bindings (Binding) — England — 17th century
Engravings (prints) — England — 17th century
Early works
General Notes:
Signatures: A-P⁸ (leaf A1 blank).
Libraries' copy lacking leaf A1, frontispiece portrat excised and re-mounted on verso of final front end-page.
With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author.
"An apologie for Epicurus" (preceding text) signed: W. Charleton.
Text printed in Roman and Italic type, with one passage in Greek type.
Text within red rule borders.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E3156
ESTC, R13827
Purchase; 2019.
Bound in period dark "somber" black morocco leather with ornate blind-tooling of all-over design of four-petalled conventional flowers springing from a pair of leaves, framed by drawer handle motifs, acorns, grapes, and pointelle decoration. The spine is blind-tooled with raised bands and the title gilt on a red leather applied label. Marbled end-papers, and all text edges stained black. Characteristic of, and attributed to, the Queens' Binder B.
Penciled notations on verso of front free end-paper suggesting this book may have been in the library at Dyrham Park, a 17th century mansion now overseen by the National Trust.
Physical Description:
36 unnumbered pages, 201 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 17 cm (8vo)
Physical Characteristics:
8vo
Call Numbers:
B570.E5 C4 1670
OCLC Numbers:
77564128