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1754684Oxford: R. Clements and J. Fletcher et al. 1754. xii268pp. Note: the final 4 leaves of the preliminaries are misbound at back. Engraved vignette on title. Cont. mottled calf red calf spine label. The first edition of this new translation into Latin with notes and observations in English. R. Clements and J. Fletcher, et al. unknown books
17873210Madrid: Don Miguel Escribano 1787. 8vo. xvi100;304pp. Greek first section pages 60-100 only and Spanish. Cont. mottled calf gilt spine spine extremities a bit chipped. Previous owner's rubber stamp in a few places. Minor marginal worming. Palau 330158 under "Teofrasto". Don Miguel Escribano unknown books
1714370<p>Theophrastus<i>The Moral Characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek By Eustace Budgell Esq; Reddere persone scit convenientia cuique. Hor. </i>London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand 1714. engraved frontispiece by Lud. Du Guernier deli & Sculp; vi; life of Theophrastus xvi; the preface viii; 80; iv 12mo. The introduction begins the text on page 1 chapter 1 begins on page 5; erratum on page 80 advertisements for Jacob Tonson's books 4 pages. Page 79 mis-numbered as "89." Bound in blind-stamped eighteenth century calf re-backed six raised bands. Book plate and embossed stamp of the Sondley Reference Library 1879 – 1919 City of Asheville North Carolina. Ownership signature of Henry Reid above the book plate. With the bookseller's tag of Joseph McDonough Rare Books Albany New York.</p><p>The fraught history of the Sondley Library its holdings its generous benefactor and its eventual piecemeal dispersal is a cautionary tale to any benefactor who might assume economic conditions and local politics will leave his/her bequest unaltered and intact in perpetuity. In the late nineteen-eighties the trustees of the Sondley Library authorized the sale of those books they deemed irrelevant to the Pack Memorial Library's purposes namely North Carolina history. </p>Jacob Tonson the printer is mentioned in Howe's <i>List of London Bookbinders 1648 – 1815. </i>"From his will it appears he was a bookbinder a stationer and a printer as well as a bookseller d. 1735." Lowndes Vol. IV 2663b "Of this translation Addison in the Lover remarked 'it was the best extant of any ancient author in the English Language.' " Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespeare’s Head, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, hardcover books
