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The Life of Socrates.
The Life of Socrates.
The Life of Socrates.
The Life of Socrates.

XENOPHON; PLATO; COOPER, John Gilbert (translator).

The Life of Socrates. Collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleus, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus gellus, and others.

London, Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1750.

£750.00
£750.00

The Life of Socrates.

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A lovely, crisp copy of this life of Socrates in English by John Gilbert Cooper. The source material is derived principally from Xenophon's Memorabilia and Plato's dialogues, but also draws upon the writings of Aristotle, Cicero, Boethius and other classical authors.

Third edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette to A7, woodcut head and tailpieces, internally crisp and clean; contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, spine headcap chipped with slight loss, joints and extremities a little rubbed, very good; xii, [1], 14-179, [1]pp.

ESTC T121642.

Stock code 124151

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The Life of Socrates.

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