THE ESSAYS, OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL WITH THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS

18mo. (6 1/2 in. x 4 in. textblock; boards 6 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in.). Smooth tan calf, double-ruled in gilt. Raised bands on original spine with gilt designs. Front board loose along joint, but still attached. Marbled edges and endpapers. Previous owner's name and 1864 date to front free endpaper, , and a second previous owner's name, (also) in ink, to half-title page. Black and red title page. Text is bright and clean. Revised from the Early Copies the References supplied and a few Notes by S.W. Singer F.S.A. Printer's colophon (Chiswick Press: C.Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane) to verso of p. 367. Bookseller's ticket (R.J. Bush Bookseller, 32 Charing Cross) to rear pastedown. In two parts, the first being ESSAYS, which include: on Truth; Death; Unity in Religion; Revenge; Adversity; Simulation and Dissimulation; Parents and Children; Marriage and Single Life; Envy; Love; Great Place; Boldness; Goodness, and Goodness of Nature; Nobility; Deditions and Troubles; Atheism; Superstition; Travel; Empire; Counsel; Delays; Cunning; Wisdom for a Man's Self; Innovations; Dispatch; Seeming Wise; Friendship; Expense; True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates; Regimen of Health; Suspicioun; Discourse; Plantations; Riches; Prophecies; Ambition; Masques and Triumphs; Nature in Men; Custom and Education; Fortune; Usury; Youth and Age; Beauty; Deformity; Building; Gardens; Negotiating; Followers and Friends; Suitors; Studies; Faction; Ceremonies and Respect; P:raise; Vain Glory; Honour and Reputation; Judicature; Anger; Vicissitudes of Things; The second being THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS, including Cassandra, or Divination; Typhon, or a Rebel; The Cyclops, or the Ministers of Terror; Narcissus, or Self-Love; Styx, or Leagues; Pan, or Nature; Perseus, or War; Endymion, or a Favourite; The Sister of the Giants, or Fame; Actaeon and Pentheus, or a Curious Man; Orpheus, or Philosophy; Coelum, or Beginnings; P:roteus, or Matter; Memnon, or a Youth too forward; Tithonus, or Satiety; Juno's Duitor, or Baseness; Cupid, or an Atom; Diomedes, or Zeal; Daedalus, or Mechanick; Ericthonious, or Imposture; Deucalion, or Restitution; Nemesis, or the Vicissitude of Things; Achelous, or Battle; Dionysus, or Passions; Atalanta, or Gain; Prometheus, of the Statue of Man; Scylla and Icarus, or the Middle Way; Sphynx, or Science; Proserpina, or Spirit; Metis, or Counsel; The Syrens, or Pleasures.. …