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AURELIUS ANTONINUS (MARCUS): The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Newly translated from the Greek: With Notes, and an Account of his Life [by Francis Hutcheson and James Moor].
Glasgow: Printed by Robert Foulis; and sold by him at the College; by Mess. Hamilton and Balfour, in Edinburgh; and by Andrew Millar...London, 1742. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 163 x 194 mms., pp. [ii], 295 [296 Errata], 296 [sic] - 308 [309 (i. e., 310) adverts], with page 297 mis-numbered and subsequent pages affected, contemporary calf (worn and rubbed); lacks label, front joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the 20th century bookplate of H[ugh] A. M'Lean on the front paste-down end-paper, a note in his hand on the bookplate, and a slip pasted on the recto of the blank leaf before the title-page indicating that he had lent the book for an exhibition at some time. The recto of the front free end-paper bears the autograph "Gabriel Neil," possibly the 19th century Edinburgh bibliophile, but it looks earlier than that. Beneath this autograph is a rather interesting note of about 100 words, in, I think, a mid to late 18th century hand, about the translators and the printer. At the time of the collaboration in this translation, Hutcheson was Professor of Moral Philosophy and James Moor had just been appointed Librarian of Glasgow University; Moor was later to become its Professor of Greek. Gaskell 14.
Offered for GBP 275.00 = appr. US$ 449.90 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 6538
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