plotinus others thomas taylor translated (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Small octavo. xi, 131pp. Text in English, with two pages of text in Greek. Contemporary bookseller ticket (John Penington & Son Philadelphia; see below) and later armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Patterned blue-green cloth (*Krupp* Bookcloth Fs1) with publisher's printed spine label. Upper joint splitting and lower joint with a pinhole, crude scotch tape repair to the crown, corners worn through, endleaves lightly foxed with a tiny bit of staining and one very short tear, one page spread a bit overopened, a sound, good or better copy; the text is bright and fine. One of 250 copies printed, according to the spine label. From Rare Book Hub: "First edition in English by these works by Plotinus. The founder of neoplatonism argues against suicide, an act motivated by passion, except perhaps if one feels he is losing his reason, and then only under 'stern necessity.'" According to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, where the bookseller John Penington's family papers reside, he was "a highly regarded intellectual, antiquary, and bookseller. specializing in rare and foreign volumes.".