A Treatise on Government. Translated From the Greek of Aristotle

by Aristotle, William Ellis, Translation

$17,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: T. Payne, B. White, and T. Cadell, 1776. First English edition and the first edition in the English language; translated by William Ellis directly from the Greek. Fireside poet James Russell Lowell's copy, inscribed to him by his friend, American transcendentalist writer and artist C.P. Cranch. Quarto. 8.75 x 11 in. 428 + 12 index pp. Bound in somewhat recent full calf with four raised bands and red leather spine

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