Theophraste

1714 · 370 — <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