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The Works of Aristotle in Four Parts: I. His Complete Masterpiece to which is added The Family Physician; II. His Experienced Midwife; III. His Book of Problems; IV. His Last Legacy

1800réf. 20AC120125P10London: Cocker Harris and Finn c. 1800s. Hardcover. Acceptable. 5.5" x 3.5. Signed by Other. c. 1830s. Cocker Harris and Finn London. Acceptable. Signed by Henry Poole with mysterious inscription "from a lady" - signature appears consistent with Henry Poole 1814-1876 from the prominent family of London clothiers who established the renowned Henry Poole & Co. on Savile Row tailors to royalty and the British elite though definitive attribution cannot be confirmed. Name and date 1831 inscribed on leather cover; if the Savile Row Poole he would have been approximately 17 years old at time of inscription. Hardcover. Full leather worn & chipped in areas bottom 0.5" spine missing front cover detached all pages intact back cover secure. Moisture damage to frontispiece & endpages. Small format 5.5" x 3.5". vi 312 2 pp. Illustrated w/ period engravings incl striking frontispiece depicting Aristotle with classical figures & anatomical woodcuts throughout. Text fully readable & intact. Intriguing provenance: this scarce pseudo-Aristotelian collection covers procreation midwifery and sexual health - provocative material for a respectable young gentleman of the era suggesting a clandestine gift "from a lady." Ships from the USA quickly and with care boxed for shipping. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Circa 1830. A scarce early 19th-century printing of the four popular pseudo-Aristotelian manuals on procreation gestation and childbirth signed by Henry Poole with the mysterious inscription "from a lady." This Henry Poole of London was likely the Henry Poole from 1814-1876 from the prominent Poole family of London clothiers who would later establish Henry Poole & Co. on Savile Row tailors to royalty and the British elite. In 1831 he would have been approximately 17 years old a young gentleman from a respectable well-connected family. His ownership of this provocative text is particularly intriguing given his family's social standing.a young gentleman in 1831 when he inscribed this volume a provocative choice for the era as these texts contained frank discussions of human sexuality reproduction and childbirth that remained shocking to Georgian and early Victorian sensibilities. The inscription suggests this may have been a clandestine gift perhaps from a lover or confidante adding intrigue to an already controversial work. Cocker, Harris, and Finn hardcover

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Aristotle; Thomas Taylor [Translator]; [Frances Mary Richardson Currer]Biblio.com

The Works of Aristotle. Volumes 1-8 of 10

1812réf. 140947913London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks 1812. First Edition in English. Very Good. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle one of 50 sets printed and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile and Bronte family benefactor Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861. Incomplete set with eight of ten volumes present of the complete translation. Uniformly bound by "J. Mackenzie Binder to the King" in contemporary half morocco over French Curl marbled boards with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt 4to. Very Good with wear extremities rubbed sporadic foxing hinges slightly tender. Volumes include: 1. The Organon 1807. 2. The Treatises on the Soul 1808. 3.The History of Animals 1809. 4.The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion on Animals etc. 1810. 5. The Rhetoric 1811. 6. The Great Edemian Ethics 1811. 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle 1812.8. The Metaphysics first edition of 1801. The first collected English translations of Aristotle's works from Orphic fragments by Neoplatonist scholar Thomas Tyler 1758-1835. Provenance of famed bibliophile and collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer whose well-curated and respected library expanded to nearly 20000 volumes. Bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin remarked that she was "the head of all female book collectors in Europe." Known for her philanthropic endeavors she donated a sum of 50 pounds to Patrick Bronte father of Charlotte Bronte when he was widowed in 1821. Currer also contributed an unknown amount to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Bronte sisters attended. Scholars postulate that Charlotte chose the non de plume of "Currer Bell" for her first published 1847 novel Jane Eyre in honor of Currer's philanthropy. A desirable set even without Currer's bookplate that seldom comes up for sale. Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks unknown