Author: PLATO.
Title: Phedon; or, A Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul. From Plato, the Divine Philosopher.
Description: London: Printed for D. Williams in Fleet-street, 1763. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], viii, 136, title-page in red and black, engraved portrait of Plato as frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (worn, rubbed, dried, covers detached); text browned, fore-margin of title-page frayed. The anonymous editor doesn't think much of modern philosophy: "We have now no Idea of a true Philosopher, since this August Title is lavishly bestowed on a Sort of Curious and lazy People, w ho make it their only Business to understand some of the Secrets of Natgure, and spent the Time of thier Life in making Experiments ont he Weight of the air, and the Virtues of the Loadstone." ESTC has two separate listings for this item: T205209 (with different pagination), Bodleian and John Rylands; and T171015 (as above), Cambridge and Bodleian.

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