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18042306765London: Printed for Thomas Taylor by R. Wilks Chancery-Lane; and Sold by E. Jeffery and R.H. Evans Pall-Mall 1804. First Thus. First Thus. Very Good/No Jacket. First thus. Bookplate of Parisian bookseller Hector Bossange on front endpapers Astor Library stamp on title pages. Boards rubbed with minor restoration to corners portion of corner of rear flyleaf on volume three absent. 1804 Large Hardcover. cxxiii 544; 657; 600; 614; 720 pp. 4to. Red leather spines with gilt titles and decorations marbled boards and endpapers. The first English translation of the complete works of Plato. Earlier translations contained only selected dialogues abridged versions of works etc. and many early translations of Plato were into Latin rather than English Taylor notes this and also mentions the primacy of his translation in his dedication to Charles Howard Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Taylor was also the first to translate Aristotle's complete works into English. This edition includes introductory information a biographical sketch of Plato and Taylor's extensive notes on his translations and on those of Floyer Sydenham. The complete contents are as follows: General Introduction; Explanation of Certain Terms Peculiar to the Platonic Philosophy; Life of Plato by Olympiodorus; The First Alcibiades; The Republic; Additional Notes on the First Alcibiades Extracted from the MS. Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue; Additional Notes on the Republic; The Laws; The Epinomis or the Philosopher; The Timaeus; The Critias or Atlanticus; Additional Notes on the Timaeus Extracted from the Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue; The Parmenides; The Sophista; The Phaedrus; The Greater Hippias; The Banquet; Additional Notes on the Parmenides Extracted from the MS. Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue and from the MS. of Damascius Peri Archon; Additional Notes on the Phaedrus from Proclus on the Theology of Plato; The Theaetetus; The Politicus; The Minos; The Apology of Socrates; The Crito; The Phaedo; The Gorgias; The Philebus; The Second Alcibiades; The Euthyphro; The Meno; The Protagoras; The Theages; The Laches; The Lysis; The Charmides; The Lesser Hippias; The Euthydemus; The Hipparchus; The Rivals; The Menexenus; The Clitopho; The Io; The Cratylus; The Twelve Epistles; Additional Notes on the Cratylus Extracted from the MS. Scholia of Proclus on That Dialogue. Printed for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks, Chancery-Lane; and Sold by E. Jeffery, and R.H. Evans, Pall-Mall unknown books
167564473First English Edition PLATO. CHARLETON Walter translator. His Apology of Socrates and Phaedo or Dialogue concerning the Immortality of Mans Soul And Manner of Socrates his Death: Carefully translated from the Greek and Illustrated by Reflections upon both the Athenian Laws and ancient Rites and Traditions concerning the Soul therein mentioned. London: Printed by T.R. & N.T. for James Magnes and Richard Bentley 1675. First English edition. Engraved frontispiece by R. White entitled Socrates Triumphans. Octavo 4 1/2 x 7 1/16 inches. 4 blank 40 300 4 blank. Full modern speckled calf ruled in blind. Red morocco spine label. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled. Repair to inner bottom corner of title-page minimal loss of text. Bottom outer blank corner missing from leaf F and I2. A very good complete copy. "Plato A Greek philosopher and prose writer. Born at Athens of a noble family Plato aspired to political activity. Dismayed at the inequities of the Athenian tyranny and later at the execution of his teacher Socrates under the democracy he turned towards philosophy in search of an alternative to the unstable and unjust public life of the time. He also sought unity behind the changing impressions of the visible universe.All Plato's writing except for The Apology and the Letters is in dialogue form.The Apology records Socrates' defense at his trial. These dialogues are philosophically inconclusive but are considered best to represent the historical Socrates." BenÈt's Reader's Encyclopedia810. "Phaedo a dialogue by Plato. In it Phaedo a disciple of Socrates describes the last hour of his teacher's life. Socrates and his friends discuss the possibility of the immortality of the soul. The doctrine of ideas and the theory of reminiscence are the most important arguments" BenÈt's Reader's Encyclopedia 797. ESTC R12767 HBS 64473. $4500 Printed by T.R. & N.T. for James Magnes and Richard Bentley unknown books
15573087Venice: Comin da Trino 1557. Graesse V.325 giving 1558 imprint; a second issue; the Italian Union Catalogue Catalogo Unico lists only 5 copies in Italian libraries. Rare first Italian-language edition of this Platonic dialogue somewhat anomalous in the Platonic corpus because of its extended treatment of the nature of physical matter and cosmology and a favorite among Renaissance readers for its myth of Atlantis which influenced other Renaissance utopias. The 1550s or thereabouts saw the first Italian translation of the most popular Platonic dialogues whether directly from Greek as here or via Ficinos Latin translation; the prestige of Ficinos Latin translation and wider readership for the original Greek probably explains why this Italian edition came so relatively late. The edition was translated by the littérateur Sebastiano Erizzo 1525-1585 a prolific writer of poetry fiction and belles lettres who provides some commentary in the way of printed marginal annotations; he would later translate a further selection of dialogues into Italian in which the Timaeus was reprinted 1574. NUC lists UNC and OCLC adds Duke. Comin da Trino books
1759100405London: Various Publishers 1759-1771. Finely bound 18th century printing of Plato's works. Quartos 2 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. Signed by the translator and editor Floyer Sydenham on the dedication page. Containing: The Dialogues of Plato A Synopsis or General View <span class="match">of</span> the Works <span class="match">of</span> <span class="match">Plato Meno A Dialogue Concerning Virtue The Greater Hippias: Concerning the Beautifull The Lesser Hippias: Concerning Voluntary and Involuntary Error The Rivals Concerning Philosophy The Banquet Concerning Love and Proposals for a New Subscription. From the library of British Army officer Leonard Smelt who served as sub-governor to Frederick Duke of York and the future George IV and became a close friend of Samuel Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith later in life with his bookplates to the pastedowns. </span><span class="match">Subsequently from the library of English churchman and academic Charles Henry Hall who served as the Dean of Christ Church from 1809 to 1812 with his bookplates to the front free endpapers. In very good condition with noted provenance. </span> That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable. Plato's central conception of a universe of ideas Perfect Types of which material objects are imperfect forms and his ethical code based on action according to human nature developed by education which represents the authority of the State fitted in as well with the philosophical religious and political thought of western Europe in the 15th century striving to free itself from the shackles of scholasticism as it did with those of the Byzantine Greeks by whom Plato was repopularized in the western world The dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement" PMM 27. Various Publishers unknown books
17035PLATO. The Greater Hippias: A Dialogue of Plato Concerning The Beautifull. London: H. Woodfall 1759. First Edition. Quarto 127 pages. Modern calf-backed marbled boards fresh endpapers. In the Greater  Hippias Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty" but are destined to fail due to their inability to formulate an answer which encompasses the entire concept. The text has an anatreptic purpose-- that is the result of the dialogue is to defeat commonly held opinions without necessarily offering a resolution. The Platonic concept of something "good in and of itself" makes its first appearance in this early dialogue which can be read as much as a serious philosophical work as a light satirical comedy with two actors. Translated by Floyer Sydenham whose Platonic scholarship was credited with "'just criticism and extensive learning an elegant taste and a genius naturally philosophic' by Thomas Taylor. Leaves rippled somewhat with light foxing. In very good condition. unknown books
18048066London: Printed for Thomas Taylor 1804. First edition thus. Cloth. very Good -. Lg. 4to. 5 vols. This set in two different bindings. Volumes I II IV and V are in later dark green cloth gilt labels on spine. These volumes are entirely uncut. The back covers of volumes IV and V are water stained text not affected. Volume IV is later calf circa 1875 over boards spine a bit rubbed and chipped. This volume has been trimmed in rebinding and is 1" shorter than the other 4 volumes. Additionally the following defects are found: Volume I lacks the half-title; Volume II has the half-title but lacks the printed title; Volume III is all present; Volume IV lacks the half-title and the printed title the first leaf being the sectional title; and Volume V lacks the half-title. The "great" work of Thomas Taylor which was published at 10 pounds 10 shillings. Unfortunately a compromised set. Printed for Thomas Taylor hardcover books
17692305607Amsterdam / A Philadelphie. Se vend a Paris: Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault Libraire 1769. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. 1769 first French edition of Plato's The Laws bound together with a 1778 third edition of Benjamin Franklin's La Science du Bonhomme Richard The Way to Wealth. Some pencil marginalia in 'Richard' edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners tiny piece of volume II spine label missing. viii 8 398 2 151 5; 502 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather morocco spine labels gilt titles and triple rules marbled edges and endpapers. French translation of The Laws a series of twelve Platonic dialogues written towards the end of his life. Grou a Jesuit fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Leclaire remaining there until the Revolution drove him into a second exile in England. As well as Platonic translations Grou published theological works of a popular nature including The Spiritual Life: A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation. The publisher includes a dedication to the then-living philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This set also includes a 1778 edition of La Science de Bonhomme Richard Sabin 78111 which is a French version of Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth. This work includes the sayings of Poor Richard as well as the interrogation of Benjamin Franklin relating to the Stamp Act Pennsylvania's new constitution and the interrogation of William Penn by parliament. Franklin spent a good deal of time in France and was well-liked there. The Way to Wealth was his most popular work and though it first appeared in England in 1757 it was the French translation originally published in 1777 that first included his commentary on British taxation of the American colonies. Herein he presages the colonists' discontent with being taxed and ordered about by a foreign power. Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault, Libraire unknown books
179030160No place Germany 1790. 4to 23.5 cm 9.25". 8 73 pp.; 4 71 pp.; 4 108 pp.; 4 60 pp.; 4 36 pp.; 2 54 pp.; 2 20 pp.; 2 14 pp.; 2 18 pp. <br><br>Nine of Plato's Dialogues with biographical notes footnotes and occasional citations in Greek all transcribed in the same small neat hand in black ink; e.g. Protagoras Gorgias Phaedras the Apology of Socrates. Each dialogue is introduced by a sectional title-page some having brief notes on that leaf verso.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: ExJohann August Wilhelm Neander Collection Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School properly deaccessioned. Modern black moiré cloth gilt leather spine label. Very good condition save for smoke-darkening on page edges in some cases working inward to affect a margin though not heavily; strong and readable. hardcover books
1784262551Utrecht: Privately Printed 1784. First. hardcover. very good. Seven philosophical dialogues. Two volumes in one. 2 6 2 97 1; 2 10 2 11-48 pages. No main title page but appears to have been printed without. 4to bound in full contemporary polished calf; ornate gilt-stamped spine edgeworn; joints starting. Utrecht: Privately Printed 1784. Overall a very good copy of this scarce book.<br/><br/> Title is the half-title as per copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Imprint supplied from Hoefer Nouv. biog. gen. 43:116 and Querard 8:376. -- Cioranescu A.18. 59298.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
17702305606Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rebound: cloth spine and corners marbled boards new end sheets. Ink name and stamp on title page of each volume. 1770 Hard Cover. viii 424; vi 442 pp. 12mo. French translations of eight of Plato's Dialogues: Theaetetus; Protagoras; Hippias I; Hippias II; Gorgias; Ion; Philebus; and Meno. Translated from the Greek by Abbe Jean Nicolas Grou 1731-1803 who already had translated Plato's Laws and the Republic. Grou a Jesuit fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Leclaire remaining there until the Revolution drove him into a second exile in England. As well as Platonic translations Grou published theological works of a popular nature including The Spiritual Life: A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation. Marc-Michel Rey hardcover books
1937131093Stuttgart Germany: Chr. Belser for The Friends of Socrates 1937. stiff paper wrappers in later clamshell box. small folio. stiff paper wrappers in later clamshell box. 90 4 pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies. Translated from the Greek by Floyer Syndenham and Thomas Taylor. With eight original signed engravings by Ferdinand Springer printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-am-Main. Unopened. Chr. Belser for The Friends of Socrates unknown books
187540312Oxford: at the Clarendon Press 1875. Second edition Revised and Corrected Throughout with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. 11 vols. 8vo. Bound in half brown contemporary calf and marbled boards black title labels marbled edges. Binding suffering from red rot. Spine ends slightly chipped some light marginal notations some in ink. Good only. Second edition Revised and Corrected Throughout with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. 11 vols. 8vo. at the Clarendon Press unknown books
1937173642unknown: Freinds of Socrates 1937. Softcover. VG clamshell box is in 3 pieces the actual book is in VG condition. Tan wraps with black lettering inside a clamshell box 90 pp 8 bw plates. Of this edition 150 numerated copies have been printed in 14 point Garamond type on Holland paper by Belser at Stuttgart in Germany in the month of January 1937 under the typographic dir. of T. Stahly. The engravings were printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-Main. This copy is number 15. With 8 original engravings by Ferdinand Springer.This dialogue is reprinted from the works of Plato translanted by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor ed. by the latter and published for the first time in London 1804. Freinds of Socrates paperback books
1926527401926. PLATO. Crito. xxxvi 2 pp. 8vo. bound in full marbled paper title printed on a black letterpress label on spine. Uncut unopened. Paris: The Pleiad 1926. One of 475 copies printed for the Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde. According to the colophon this book marks the first use of Arrighi Vicenza type but the British Library exhibition catalogue notes that this type was first used in the imprint and colophon of The Calligraphic Models published two months earlier. A fine copy with the bookplates of Edward Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny on front flyleaf and pastedown. Mardersteig 16. unknown books
187326528Lipsiae: Otto Holtze and Londini: Dulac & Soc. and David Nutt 1873. Small folio pp. xxv 1 725 2; Greek text with Latin preface; the copy with occasional extensive and informed notes in the margins likely by one W. H. Cross University College Oxford whose ownership signature is on the flyleaf; full vellum soiled red morocco label on spine; a note on the flyleaf states that the book was "bound Dec. 1899." With the bookplate of the Eccle Rigg Library. <br/><br/> Otto Holtze [and] Londini: Dulac & Soc. [and] David Nutt hardcover books
19261270763Paris: The Pleiad 1926. Limited Edition. 8vo. xxxvi VG; spine marbled brown with black paper label and brown lettering; original brown marbled paper over boards; One of 475 numbered copies printed under the supervision of Frederic Warde at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola Switzerland this is number 422; lacking slipcase; GP consignment; shelved case 10. 1270763. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Pleiad unknown books
187524509Oxford: Clarendon Press 1875. 5 volumes 8vo original terracotta cloth; a bit rubbed and with an occasional crack in the cloth vol. 1 rebacked. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover books
1920R5163Peterburg: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo State Publishers 1920. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine. Later black cloth preserving the original illustrated wraps; pp. 156 with illustrations by Vidberg. "Within the discursive world created by the Soviet mass spectacles the event announces itself as new by virtue of its shift from the individual to the mass and the instigation of a collective subject as both the subject and object of the drama. In this way it distinguishes itself from the old 'pre-modern' society. More specifically it took the pre-revolutionary Symbolist utopias of 'ritual theatre' whose formulation was largely a response to the abortive 1905 revolution and recast their 'people' as the proletariat" Kleberg 1980 44-64. Platon Kerzhentsev's THE CREATIVE THEATRE was the most influential formulation in this direction -- his book was in its fourth edition by 1920. The October revolution had he claimed provided the social base for the realization of the ritual community valorized by the Symbolists; by the time of the fourth edition he was able to claim that "much of what seemed a utopia two years ago now appears to be on the way to becoming reality" Kleberg 1980 62. "This claim was based on the explosion of mass spectacles that had occurred in the intervening years" Smith "Meyerhold Mass Theatre and Fascism". The theory for Soviet mass spectacles. <br/><br/> Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [State Publishers] hardcover books
19269023708Paris: Pleiad 1926. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Henry Cary. One of 475 numbered copies designed by Frederic Warde and being the first to use a new type by the Officina Bodini of Switzerland. Marbled paper boards with a paper label on the spine. Fine. <br/><br/>Private Press Pleiad hardcover books
P6416Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo 1919. Octavo 18 Ã 13.5 cm. Original decorative wrappers; 141 1 pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography of London was written by Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev 1881-1940 the leading historian of Ireland in the Soviet Union. Focused on London as the seat of British imperialism this work discusses the customs and mores of the English visiting all corners of London rich and poor. Two sections 'Worker's London' and 'London Organizations' paint a picture of the difficulties faced by the working classes in the metropolis. In 1899-1904 Kerzhentsev studied history at the Moscow State University and in 1904 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party RSDLP. After numerous arrests in Russia Kerzhentsev lived in exile in the UK France and the United States and was active in the Bolshevik groups abroad. In this period he also studied the history of the Irish struggles for independence and published two books on the subject "The fight for land and freedom in Ireland" 1917 and "Revolutionary Ireland" 1918. Upon his return to Russia Kerzhentsev went on to write for Izvestia and Pravda eventually becoming the head of Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA and initiating its ideological bent. Kerzhentsev was also one of the founders of the system of Soviet censorship and went on to write one of the first histories of Lenin "The Life of Lenin" 1934. Despite being removed from his post in 1938 Kerzhentsev survived the Stalinist purges and died of natural causes in 1940. KVK and OCLC show copies at Oxford National Library of Sweden and the British Library. unknown books
1931031892LOndon: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1931. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett. 3d edition revised and corrected throughout with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names. 5 volumes complete original burgundy cloth. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press unknown books
19792309669Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Edges faintly foxed spine of third volume leans backward. 1979 Full-Leather. Part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 516; 557; 391 pp. Original maroon full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Includes: Charmides; Lysis; Laches; Protagoras; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Ion; Symposium; Meno; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Gorgias; The Republic; Laws; Timaeus; Critias; Parmenides; Theaetetus; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; The Seventh Letter. The Franklin Library hardcover books
192637372Paris: The Pleiad 1926. No. 97 of 475 copies. Large 8vo pp. xxxvi. Patterned paper over boards with small paper label on spine. A nice copy. The Pleiad unknown books
1924265918London: The Nonesuch Press 1924. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR HOUGHTON TO PHILIP HOFER. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Arthur Houghton. Given in 1962 to Philip Hofer to start on a new journey through the world. I have been given my father's copy by Richard Smart who bought it after his death." Dreyfus 19 The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1787283260Biponti: Ex Typographia Societatis 1787. Half Leather. Good binding. A clean copy. Half bound in calf with vellum labels and leather bands reinforcing the spine. Speckled paper covered boards. Elaborate paste paper endsheets. Some loss to the fore-edges of the front and rear boards. Printed in Greek with the Latin translation on the bottom half of the pages. All edges red. Good binding. Ex Typographia Societatis unknown books
