The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals

by Plutarch

$6,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

First edition

London: Arnold Hatfield, 1603. Folio, early full calf, raised bands. viii , 1363, 1 blank p. , 62 pp., engraved title-page headpiece. In a recent custom-made clamshell box, in half brown calf and brown cloth, with raised bands. First edition in English of Plutarch’s Moralia.Although Plutarch is best known as a biographer, over half of his work consists of philosophical writings. In addition

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