Author: TAYLOR, Thomas (translator)
Title: The Hymns of Orpheus: Translated from the Original Greek with a Preliminary Dissertation of the Life and Theology of Orpheus to Which Is Added the Essay of Plotinus Concerning the Beautiful
Description: Los Angeles, The Philosophical Research Society, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering/rules, pictorial dust jacket. (4pp), xii, 227pp; xx, 47pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight and handsome copy of this unspecified "Limited Edition." Philosophical Research Society founder Manly P. Hall (1901-90) introduces these back-to-back facsimile reprints of Taylor's "Hymns of Orpheus" (London, 1791) and his "Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus" (London, 1792). Taylor (1758-1835) was a highly-regarded English translator, the first to accomplish the entire works of Plato and Aristotle. .

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