Epictetus: (Schweighauser, J., ed.:)
Dissertationum ab Arriano Digestarum Libri IV. Eiusdem Enchiridion, et ex deperditis sermonibus fragmenta. Post Io. Uptoni aliorumque curas [...]
Lipsiae [Leipzig]: in libraria Weidmannia 1799 (vols.I-III), 1800 (vols.IV-V), 1798 (vol.VI). 6 vols. bound as 7. 8vo., pp.XXXII, 684; [iv], 465, [v]; [v], 466-969, [vii]; [iv], 504; [iv], 540; [iv], 500; CLX, 412. Very occasional light foxing but generally remarkably bright and clean within. Uniformly bound in slightly later brown straight-grain morocco, raised bands, gilt-lettered spines, gilt centrepiece to each board, a.e.g., wide gilt dentelles. Bands and edges rubbed, spines a little scuffed, a few marks, bookplates attached to each ffep causing the paper to cockle slightly, very good. To the upper board of each volume a gilt centrepiece cartouche with the initials T.W., a bird crest and the motto Deus Alit Me; to each rear board a small gilt coat of arms. Together with a small clipping from an auction catalogue pasted to the ffep in vol.I these identify as a previous owner Rev. Theodore Williams (his library sold by in London by Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard, April 1827). To each front pastedown a small oval gilt bookplate of John, Earl of Clare. Below this in volume I only, a paper label reading 'From the collection of Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield' (his extensive library sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1911-14). To each ffep, armourial bookplate of the Earl of Cromer. The bookplate is signed J.F. Badeley and dated 1912, suggesting as the owner Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917). The Discourses, or oral teachings, of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, compiled by his famous student Arrian and here edited by Johann Caspar Schweighauser (1742-1830), professor of Greek and Oriental Languages at Strassburg from 1778-1824. 'The celebrity of all preceding editions is eclipsed by the sagacity, erudition, and research displayed in this most excellent work by Professor Schweighauser.' (Dibdin). Contains: vol.I: Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.II. pt.i-ii: Notae in Epicteti Dissertationes; vol.III: Enchiridion, fragmenta, indices; vol.IV: Simplicii commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion ex versione Latina Hieronymi Wolfii; vol.V: Enchiridii paraphrasis Christiana, cum Mer. Casauboni Latina versione. Nili Ascetae Manuale Epicteti, ad usum juvenum Christianorum adcommodatum. Epicteti Enchiridion Angelo Politiano interprete. Notae ad Simplicii comment; vol.VI: Epicteti Manuale et Cebetis Tabula. Bound as volume VI is the standalone, Epicteti Manvale et Cebetis tabvla Graece et Latine (1798). Dibdin I (4th edn.) 518.

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