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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

London: Printed by S. Richardson 1758 First edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Epictetus. This esteemed work was the standard English version prior to Oldfather's translation (1925-8). (See Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, Oxford: 2002.). Contemporary brown calf, with some expert restoration. Quarto. Some edgewear. Joints tender. Contemporary ink ownership signature to edge of title-page and later numerical inscription to bottom margin of title-page. Some toning. A very good copy of this monumental translation. Elizabeth Carter (1717 - 1806) was one of the leading members of the Bluestocking Circle and a close friend of Elizabeth Montagu. With a persistence that won the praise of Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, she learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in childhood with her brothers, and later studied French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Arabic (Drabble, Oxford Companion to English Literature). She was a friend of Samuel Johnson, who thought her… Read More