first publication of A Dialogue between a Phylosopher and a Student
HOBBES, Thomas.
The Art of Rhetoric, with a discourse on the laws of England [A Dialogue between a Phylosopher and a Student].
London, Printed for William Crooke at the Green Dragon without temple-Bar, 1681.
'It was J[ohn] A[ubrey] that did putt Mr. Hobbes upon writing his treatise De Legibus, which is bound up with his Rhetorique that one cannot find it but by chance; no mention of it in the first title'. According to the Preface to the present work, the dialogue 'has been finish'd many years... [and] has had the good fortune to be much esteem'd by the greatest Men of the Profession of the Law... However tis not expected, that al Men should submit to his Opinions' (MacDonald & Hargreaves).
Two works in 1 vol., third & first editions; 8vo (18 x 11.5 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, slightly toned, small area of damage to gathering B-C of second work causing loss to a few letters of text of C1; recently bound repurposing 18th-century sprinkled calf boards, red morocco lettering-piece to spine, marbled edges, very good; [6], 168, 208pp.
ESTC R7393; Wing H2212; MacDonald & Hargreaves 13.
Stock code 124316
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Thoughts of Cicero,
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