'Honesty is the best Policy'
PALMER, Samuel.
Moral Essays on some of the most curious and significant English, Scotch and foreign proverbs.
London, Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. Manship, J. Nicholson, R. Parker, B. Tooke, and R. Smith, 1710.
Many 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').
First 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.
Stock code 119949
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