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Summary:
- Third English edition of the first English translation of Epicurus's Morals.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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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.
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Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages, 201 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 17 cm (8vo)
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Physical Characteristics:
- 8vo
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Call Numbers:
- B570.E5 C4 1670
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OCLC Numbers:
- 77564128
