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The 1998 National Economic Summit: Selected Papers and Presentations, Papers and Statements Presented at the National Parliament on 5-6 February 1998
Bill Skate; Mekere Morauta; Titus Philemon; Mel Togolo; Mike Manning; Agogo Mawuli; Charles Yala; Beno Boeha; Richard Guy; Richard Sikani
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 57 pp.
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Verlag: Adam Islip, London, 1600
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In den WarenkorbLeather. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. [10] (lacking first blank) , 804, 809-1351,1354-1403, [41] (lacking last blank) pp. Collates complete save for first and last blanks, pagination skips correspond to ESTC 006185333. Impressive thick folio, 13" x 8.5" Magnificent modern rebinding in full blindstamped p…anelled dark leather, 5 raised bands to the spine with florettes in the compartments, title, author and date in gilt. Fore-edge has title written on (to be shelved edge out). Renewed end pages with college library bookplate and bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018) a British Anglo-Saxonist, and the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor at Univ. Of Oxford. Title page with large engraved printer's mark, remounted with some repairs, an old signature in brown ink with date April 26, 1600. Xylographic "The" in the title. Verso of title page has woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the verso of A4 has a portrait of Livy framed in bay leaves and fruits. Dedication page has upper corner torn and has been restored with loss of text and head woodcut, old cellotape repair as well. To the Reader page has corner repaired with no loss, some staining p251-255, small ink smear on one page, Iiii quire corners restored, a few other pages with minor stains or repairs in the corners, Cccccc3 has a thin spot/small hole in the margin with no loss of text. Very occasional marginalia. Numerous engraved head and tail pieces, type is clear, paper is strong and nice. The first English edition of Livy's Roman History, translated by Holland, considered one of the greatest translators of the Elizabethan era. "His first published translation, The Romane Historie (1600) , was the first complete rendering of Livy's Latin history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, into English. According to John Considine: 'It was a work of great importance, presented in a grand folio volume of 1458 pages, and dedicated to the Queen. The translation set out to be lucid and unpretentious, and achieved its aim with marked success. It is accurate, and often lively, and although it does not attempt to imitate the terseness of Latin, it avoids prolixity.' " Livy (or Titus Livius) gives us the Ab Urbe Condita (literally, "From the Founding") , a history of Rome from its very beginnings. The first 10 books are the most famous, celebrated for their grandeur -- "it as a panegyrist of Rome and Italy that Livy finds his most memorable expression." Here we learn of the quasi-mythological history of Rome, of Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, and the battles of the early kings of Rome; the Law of the Twelve Tables, the wars against the Gauls, the Latins, and the Samnites and finally the battle -- complete with elephants --between Hannibal's son Hasdrubal and Nero. Livy was known as a supreme master of the Latin language. "His prose was worthy of Cicero's but more subtle, more malleable and more lyrical." Livy probably wrote his history of Rome during the reign of Augustus Caesar; it is a fascinating work that in many cases is our only source of numerous aspects of Roman history; with vivid accounts of Tarquin the Proud, the Carthagenian Wars, and other events from Rome's tumultuous past. A beautiful and important book in a magnificent binding, complete save for the front and rear blanks, in quite good condition, with a nice provenance. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall.
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In den WarenkorbLondon: Adam Islip. 1600. Folio. Contemporary English calf, covers gilt and ruled in blind to a panel design, with gilt arabesque-centrepieces, cornerpieces incorporating fleurs-de-lys and crowns (see below), ties and endpapers renewed, corners skilfully restored, sometime sympathetically rebacked, spine gilt in compartments, ra…ised bands ruled in gilt, gilt black morocco lettering-piece; pp. [x], 804, 809-1351, 1354-1403, [43], large woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut portraits of Elizabeth I to verso of title-page, and of Livy to A4v, woodcut decorated and factotum initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces; contemporary ink marginalia and underlining to 8 pp.; extremities and boards slightly rubbed; bound without first blank, final blank partly torn away, a little browning (mainly to margins), occasional stains, outer corners of first 3 ff. skilfully restored (not affecting text), outer corners and lower margin of final 3 ff. reinforced; overall a very good copy. First edition of the first complete translation of Livy into English, and the earliest major publication of Philemon Holland (1552-1637), in a handsome contemporary binding possibly from the circle of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612). Holland's Livy, his first published translation, was the first in a series of unabridged translations of canonical Latin authors that established his reputation as the 'translator generall in his age' (Pforzheimer 495). The present work gave English readers their first complete Livy and quickly became one of the most influential classical histories available in the vernacular. 'Holland claimed to have written the whole manuscript with the same pen: "a monumental pen" says Fuller, which "he solemnly kept", and which ultimately was enclosed in silver by a lady of his acquaintance' (DNB), commemorating the scale and ambition of the undertaking. The translation is frequently cited among the intellectual sources of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. While Thomas North's Plutarch supplied the narrative framework, Holland's Livy appears to have contributed a broader political temper to the play, one sceptical of purely martial heroism and more attentive to negotiation, compromise, and civic pragmatism. The work's influence continued well into the seventeenth century; during the English Civil War it was read across ideological divisions - by constitutional theorists such as Sir Francis Nethersole, by Leveller writers, and by Royalist pamphleteers - for its complex treatment of Rome's transition from monarchy to republican government. Provenance: Possibly from the circle of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), eldest son and heir apparent of James I, widely admired by contemporaries for his learning and intellectual seriousness, and the founder of a substantial and carefully assembled library said to have contained more than a thousand volumes. Bindings associated with the prince's collection are known to employ crowned fleur-de-lys badge tools of the same decorative type as those found on the present volume (see British Armorial Bindings Online, stamps 14, 15, 23, and 29). The large strapwork centrepiece belongs to a recognised group of high-quality London 'centrepiece' bindings produced for patrons at the upper end of the trade. The workshop responsible appears to have had connections with the printing house of John Bill, later King's Printer from 1617 (Pearson, 'English centrepiece bindings, ca. 1560-1640, in Manchester libraries', no. 008(g)). Pforzheimer 495; ESTC S114001.
