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1944ref. 9034217Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1944. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
1759ref. 1308111759. First Edition. Signed. SYDENHAM Floyer translator PLATO. Dialogues of Plato. London: W. Sandby and others 1759-1779. Three volumes. Large quarto contemporary half calf raised bands gilt morocco spine labels title labels refurbished. Each volume housed in a custom chemise and together in a clamshell box. $16500.First editions of these dialogues of Plato many marking their first appearances in English signed by the translator on the dedication page of the Synopsis.Floyer Sydenham ""was an excellent Greek scholar and devoted himself to the task of translating the works of Plato. In 1759 he published his proposals in a quarto tract and accomplished his purpose between 1759 and 1780 in four quarto parts"" DNB XIX 245. A contemporary review observed ""His notes which are very copious serve to illustrate many obscure passages in the text and explain many mythological allusionsÉ This learned Translator of Plato's Works pursues his undertaking with unremitted diligence; and acquits himself with his usual judgment and accuracy"" Brueggemann 152 quoting the Monthly Review. Unfortunately Sydenham's labors were not appreciated during his lifetime and he died in debtor's prison before completing the project. Thomas Taylor later made use of Sydenham's work in his own edition of PlatoÑand praised the earlier translator in verse: ""Genius sublime; who from barbaric night/ Led Wisdom forth far beaming heav'nly light;/ Whose skill great Plato's elegance commands/ His graces copies and his fire expands."" Illustrated with two folding plates diagramming Plato's arguments. The parts were published separately in very small runs and complete contemporary sets are now extremely scarce. This set contains 12 of 13 parts published with main title pages for the volumes dated 1767 1773 and 1779. Volume I: A Synopsis or General View of the Works of Plato 1759 Io 1759 The Greater Hippias 1759 The Lesser Hippias 1761 Meno no separate title page but 1759 The Rivals no separate title page but 1761; Volume II: The Banquet 1761 The First Alcibiades 1773 The Second Alcibiades 1776; Volume III: A Dissertation on the Doctrine of Heraclitus 1775 PhilebusÉ the First Part 1779. Only PhilebusÉ the Second Part is absent as often seen. With affixed errata slip on page 83 of Volume III. Schweiger 250 251 257. Rothschild 2384-85. Lowndes 1877. ESTC T132440. Volume I with early inked owner name and note: ""very scarce.""Contents overall very clean with a few instances of faint foxing; bindings moderately rubbed. A handsome wide-margined copy. hardcover books
1892ref. 53851Oxford: Clarendon Press 1892. Near fine. Handsome set of Jowett's Plato in beautifully preserved Rivière & Son half morocco bindings. Plato's dialogues form much of the philosophical foundation of Western civilization. In the APOLOGY EUTHYPHRO CRITO PHAEDO and more Socrates leads his interlocutors through a series of questions that concern morality and faith censorship and education political justice and injustice and the immortality of the soul. A stellar copy and a requirement for any library on the history of thought. Five volumes 9'' x 5.75'' each. Contemporary half maroon morocco by Rivière & Son marbled boards raised bands gilt-ornamented spines. Top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Third edition. Text in English. 594; 576; 544; 646; 542 pages. Evidence of bookplate removal to front endpapers a few small dings to vol. IV else exceptionally sharp. Clarendon Press unknown books
1924ref. 265918London: The Nonesuch Press 1924. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 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
1966ref. 17722New York: Pantheon 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. With Introduction and Prefatory Notes. Bollingen Series LXXI. Fourth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket clipped stamped $8.50 bumped and with some short tears and creases. Green cloth over flexible boards gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a sewn-in bookmark soiled at the edges clean internally. Pantheon hardcover books
1763ref. 8261Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis 1763. First edition in English. Near Fine. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens and with his introductory essay. An exceptional copy bound by the Foulis Press Bindery and rare thus. Quarto 241 x 179 mm similar leaf size to other copies designated as "large paper" copies. Complete: 4 xl 430 2 ads. An exceptional Near Fine copy overall. Beautifully bound in full cherry-red turkey morocco with decorative gilt floral borders. Spine in compartments with the cross design described by Philip Gaskell as likely identifying the deluxe Foulis bindings see The Library Fifth Series Volume VII No. 2. Boards with the same distinctive floral tooling used on the Foulis Press binding of Robert Simson's Opera Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis 1776 held at Glasgow University. Edges stained dark green. Binding with some minor repairs to the outer joints. Internal contents generally in fine condition. With the library label of Appuldurcombe House "App." to upper pastedown and an ownership inscription dated June 1776 to upper free endpaper. Extremely scarce and desirable in a deluxe binding executed by the Foulis Press Bindery. Housed in a custom slipcase. This copy belonged to the politician and antiquary Sir Richard Worsley 7th Baronet 1751 - 1805 and contains the label of his family's Appuldurcombe House "App.". The anonymous ownership inscription reveals that Worsley then gifted the copy to a friend: "Given to me at Appuldurcombe Isle of Wight June the 7 1776. By my very worthy & amicable Friend Sir Richard Worsley Baronet." It is likely that this copy was specially presented by the Foulis Press to Worsley's father Thomas 1726 - 1768 sometime around 1763 and passed into Worsley's possession upon his father's death in 1768. If Worsley read Plato in his father's library as a child as many aristocratic young men would have done at the time the experience may have inspired his lifelong interest in the classical world. Throughout the 1780s Worsley traveled in Greece Italy Egypt and Turkey collecting sculpture paintings and gems which he brought back to Britain and housed at Appuldurcombe. Worsley had by 1790 assembled the largest collection of classical Greek sculpture in Britain and had been made a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society. The distinctive style of the Foulis Bindery is evident in the binding of this copy: the spine gilt the floral borders and the color and type of the leather all match other deluxe bindings done by the press. In The Library Philip Gaskell describes a matching spine design and color of leather: "It is.hard to establish the identity of any of the better sort of Foulis bindings since no signed examples have appeared. There is however a design of which the distinctive feature is a series of crosses in the spine panels which occurs on the well-made calf and morocco bindings of a surprisingly wide range of Foulis books and which I have seen nowhere else. This observation was first suggested to me by Mr. John Weird of Glasgow University who showed me several splendid examples in faded cherry-red morocco." Gaskell p. 87. The Glasgow University Special Collections digital exhibit "Robert & Andrew Foulis the Foulis Press and Their Legacy" also notes that Robert Foulis "personally supervised the binding of many of the finer volumes" and "'red turkey gilt'.apparently was Foulis' favorite binding." Additionally the exact floral pattern seen on the boards - a bloom a leaf and a bunch of grapes - can also be found on a copy of Robert Simson's Opera Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis 1776 held in the Glasgow University collections shelfmark BD12-c.22. Taken together this evidence indicates that this copy was indeed bound by the Foulis Press Bindery. First written around 380 BC The Republic is a work in which Plato explores questions of justice goodness and truth and how to order the ideal government and man within it. It is without a doubt one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory ever written containing immensely consequential ideas like Plato's allegory of the cave and his outline of the five regimes. The ripple of concepts first discussed in The Republic can be followed throughout the course of human political and intellectual development from classical Greece to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment as insightful today as it was nearly 2500 years ago. "Amidst a great diversity both of subject and treatment the dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement. While nowhere is a definite system laid down it has been truly said that the germs of all ideas can be found in Plato" PMM 27: Plato's Opera 1484. Gaskell Philip. "The Early Work of the Foulis Press and Wilson Foundry." The Library Fifth Series Volume VII No. 2 June 1952 pp. 77-110. Smith Robert Fairfull. "Robert & Andrew Foulis the Foulis Press and Their Legacy." Glasgow University Special Collections digital exhibit. Near Fine. Robert & Andrew Foulis unknown books
1983ref. 9030689Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1983. Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Translations by Benjamin Jowett and J. Harward. Published exclusively for subscribers to the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. Bound in publisher's original full maroon leather with spine and covers stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Each volume 6 x 9 inches. 1464 total pages. Franklin Library hardcover books
1966ref. 9029551Geneva: Nagel 1966. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's light grey vinyl with spine stamped in gilt. 64 illustrations in color 61 illustrations in black-and-white. 6 1/4 x 9 inches. 223 pages. Nagel hardcover books
1968ref. 018734New York: Limited Editions Club 1968. Hardcover. Minor scrape to the front cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Eugene Karlin. Quarto 7-1/2" x 11" bound in natural-grain goatskin vellum-backed boards covered with a pinkish-tannish Swedish paper. Translated from the Greek with Introductory Analyses by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Whitney J. Oates. Illustrated with full- and part-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eugene Karlin. Copy #894 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
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1968ref. 19370Mount Vernon: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Signed Limited Edition. Boards. Fine. The signed limited edition of Lysis or Friendship; The Symposium; Phaedrus by Plato. Quarto xv 1 208pp 2. Natural-grain goatskin vellum spine over Swedish paper-covered boards. Brown leather spine label. Gilt vignette on the front cover. Translated by Benjamin Jowett with a preface by Whitney J. Oates. Illustrated with 20 pen drawings by Eugene Karlin. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. Includes The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club for October 1968 Number 416. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Karlin on the colophon this being number 85. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. Limited Editions Club 409. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1833ref. 6321New York: W. Gowan 1833. Very good. 2092pp. 12mo. Original boards cloth spine; printed paper label. Corners worn and bumped head and foot of spine chipped and worn label rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing. Untrimmed. First American edition of Plato's Phaedon originally from a run of 2500 copies and the first edition of any of Plato's works to be published in the United States. It was translated from the Greek by Andre Dacier though attributed on the title page to Madam Anne Lefevre Dacier. Stoddard notes that in some copies the dedication to Washington Irving appears on p.3 with the Advertisement printed on its verso. In this copy the dedication is omitted and p.3 contains the Advertisement with a blank verso. The evidence thus points to two distinct states with no priority given. According to the Dictionary of American Biography this is the publisher's first output. The ownership signature J.W. French is likely that of John W. French an Episcopal clergyman and educator and later West Point chaplain. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1832 and subsequently from General Theological Seminary in New York City. Renowned for his scholarship in Greek Latin and moral philosophy this work would naturally have been of interest. A handsome copy in original unsophisticated condition. W. Gowan unknown books
1956ref. UPLAPLA01acmfBobbs-Merrill 1956. Good. Plato. Plato: Euthyphro Apology Crito. Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1956. 70pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed and yellowed edges. Bobbs-Merrill paperback books
1982ref. UPLAOEU00drpGallimard 1982. Very Good. Plato. Oeuvres Completes 2 Volumes. Robin Leon. Paris: Gallimard 1982. xix 1450 ; 1671pp. Small 12mo. Green leatherette with green ribbon. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with flaps glued to boards. Wrapped in mylar. Gallimard hardcover books
1970ref. 533710Middlesex England: Penguin 1970. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Translated with an introduction by Trevor J. Saunders. 550pp. Mass market paperback. Inked initials on rear interior panel wrappers moderately rubbed and edgeworn very good. Penguin unknown books
1973ref. 534157Middlesex England: Penguin 1973. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Translated with an introduction by Walter Hamilton. 154pp. Mass market paperback. Tiny ink markings in margins of three pages with tiny initials on interior rear panel wrappers moderately edgeworn very good. Penguin unknown books
1937ref. 445467New York: Random House 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Volume two only of two. Thick octavo. 939pp. Translated in English by B. Jowett. Introduction by Professor Raphael Demos. Pages lightly age-toned corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dustwrapper. Random House hardcover books
1937ref. 302667New York: Random House 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Volume two only of two. 939pp. Translated in English by B. Jowett. Introduction by Professor Raphael Demos. Random House hardcover books
ref. S11813Boston & New York:: Jefferson Press no date. Volumes 12 of four. 8vo. x 681; 607 pp. Cloth; inner hinges mended. Good. Jefferson Press, [no date]. hardcover books
1976ref. S10582Indianapolis:: Hackett Publishing Co. 1976. 1976. 8vo. xvii 254 pp. List of works cited indices. Paper wrappers. Ownership signature. Fine. ISBN: 0915144220 Hackett Publishing Co., 1976. unknown books
1491ref. 68663Venice: Vernardinus de Choris de Cremona and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus August 13 1491. And: FICINO Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio 11 7/8 x 8 inches; 301 x 206 mm. 4 444 leaves. Printed in Gothic type in double columns. With beautifully illuminated initials and border to the first text leaf. Numerous illuminated 7 8 9 and 10-line initials heightened in gilt with blue red and green backgrounds. The initial letter will extend beyond the letter with illumination 5-7 lines both up and down. Additional 3 4 5 and 7-line initials in red blue or gold. The first leaf of text a1 with two large illuminated initials and a full illuminated border with red green blue and gilt scrolls floral motifs and a shield surrounded by a wreath. This is the first edition to include Ficino's great work Platonica Theologia which was not included in the 1484 edition as Ficino first published his work in 1482. Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation. Second editions of Ficino's translation of Plato's work first published 1484 as well as his chief philosophical work the Platonica theologia in which he attempts to illustrate the harmony between Platonism and Christian theology first published 1482 and this edition is the first to collect both works together in one. With only one complete copy of the 1484 first edition at auction since the the copy that came up in the 1940s. This copy sold in 2021 for $1026000. This present edition is realistically the first obtainable edition of Plato's works. 18th-century acid treated calf. Spine with orange morocco spine label lettered in gilt. All edges dyed yellow and speckled red. Newer endpapers. A small amount of old ink neat marginalia. A small repaired hole to the title-page not affecting text just the top edge of some illumination on verso. A very clean and beautiful copy with lovely illumination. Overall a very good copy of the second edition and first obtainable edition of Plato's Opera. Plato was the first of the ancient philosophers to appear in print and for nearly thirty years Ficino's translation was the only published version available until the appearance of the Greek 'editio princeps' in 1513. Ficino's translation took twenty years to complete and during this time he was assisted by members of the Platonic Academy founded by his patron Cosimo de Medici whose ambition was to revive the study of Platonic philosophy. "Amidst a great diversity both of subject and treatment the dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement. While nowhere is a definite system laid down it has been truly said that the germs of all ideas can be found in Plato." "Printing and the Mind of Man" # 27 for 1484 edition. BMC V 465 IB. 23432; IGI 7861; PolainB 3190; Goff P-772; PMM 27. HBS 68663. $75000. Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus unknown books
2008ref. 531911Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield. Trade paperback. Trifle worn else fine. Oxford University Press unknown books
1759ref. 170351759. Plato. The Greater Hippias 1759 English translation presenting a key Socratic dialogue on the nature of beauty within the context of Enlightenment era engagement with classical philosophy. The work stages an exchange between Socrates and Hippias in which attempts to define beauty are systematically examined and rejected illustrating the Socratic method of testing and dismantling accepted ideas. This edition contributes to the study of eighteenth century philosophical translation the transmission of Greek thought into English intellectual culture and early modern interpretations of aesthetics and moral philosophy. Plato. The Greater Hippias: A Dialogue of Plato Concerning the Beautifull. London: H. Woodfall 1759. First edition in English translated by Floyer Sydenham. Quarto volume presenting the dialogue in which Socrates and Hippias attempt to establish a definition of beauty but arrive instead at the limits of such inquiry. The text employs an anatreptic structure advancing philosophical critique through the refutation of inadequate definitions rather than through a final resolution. Sydenham's translation reflects eighteenth century efforts to render Platonic philosophy accessible to English readers and his work was later praised for its "just criticism and extensive learning an elegant taste and a genius naturally philosophic." Published during a period of renewed classical scholarship in Britain this edition aligns with broader Enlightenment interest in Greek philosophy as a foundation for discussions of ethics aesthetics and knowledge. The dialogue's exploration of beauty as a concept "good in and of itself" situates it within early philosophical treatments of intrinsic value while its conversational form influenced later literary and philosophical writing. Light rippling to leaves with minor foxing; overall very good. A well preserved example of eighteenth century Platonic translation and philosophical inquiry. unknown books
1926ref. 527401926. 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
1951ref. 275291New York: The Liberal Arts Press 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Modest wear thus near fine in stapled wrappers. The Liberal Arts Press unknown books
