
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 114•
ARISTOTLE Politiques, or Discourses of Government, Adam Islip, 1598
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
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ARISTOTLE
Politiques, or Discourses of Government, first edition in English, without initial and final blanks, first 5 leaves with blank upper fore-corner repaired, D6 ink-stained, panelled calf gilt by James Brockman [ESTC S106844; Pforzheimer 10], folio (285 x 180mm.), Adam Islip, 1598
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS, translated first into French by Loys Le Roy and thence to English by John Dickenson. Dickenson (c. 1570-1635/6) served in several important diplomatic positions in the Low Countries in the early 1600s, and was appointed ordinary clerk to the Privy Council in 1622.
Provenance: Jonathan ?Hollend, early ownership inscriptions on title; Earls Cowper, Panshanger bookplate.