London: John Allde 1573. Sixth edition in English of Xenophon's Oeconomicus first published by Thomas Berthelet in 1532 this edition the first to be published by John Allde at his busy establishment at the Long Shop next to St Mildred Poultry London. The text is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture one of the earliest works on economics in its original sense of household management. It is also one of the very few contemporary writings to discuss the position of both women and slaves in antiquity. The text was rendered into English by Gentian Hervet 1499-1584 the French humanist who spent some of his early career in the 1520s and 1530s in England and was tutored at Oxford by Thomas Lupset. Octavo 135 x 87 mm 64 leaves. Woodcut decorative border to title woodcut initials printed in blackletter. Twentieth-century ribbed blue cloth spine lettered gilt. Ownership stamp of Rothamsted Experimental Station Harpenden Herts. to front pastedown; pale dampmark; a very good copy. ESTC gives three locations only: British Library Bodleian and Huntington. hardcover
Kiøbenhavn C. Poulsens Forlag 1800. 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. LXIV3431 pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Velbevaret. <br/><br/><em>Anden danske oversættelse af Cyropædien. - Bibl. Danica IV 112. </em> unknown
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