{"product_id":"samuel-palmer-moral-essays-london-1710-119949","title":"Moral Essays","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e'Honesty is the best Policy'\u003c\/h4\u003eThe first edition of this collection of 134 traditional proverbs compiled by the churchman Samuel Palmer (d.1724), each with a short explanatory essay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany expressions will be familiar to readers today: 'Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth', 'Possession is Eleven Points of the Law', 'Evil be to him that evil thinks', whilst others have fallen out of use: 'Every Man must Eat a Peck of Ashes before He Dies' (meaning 'An affected Niceness at Table Is extreamly Ridiculous').\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 8vo (20 x 13 cm); ownership inscription in pen to title and front endpapers, occasional toning' contemporary panelled calf tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red, joints and spine ends repaired, very good; xxxi, [1], 384, [16]pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"PALMER, Samuel.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56553056371063,"sku":"119949","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/119949_758f8533-5d9e-4de3-a3b5-8cfe7a4303ee.jpg?v=1780921040","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/samuel-palmer-moral-essays-london-1710-119949","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}