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Leather Bound. pp. xiv, 292. 12mo. Bound in original full mottled leather with title in gilt housed within morocco spine label, accompanied with gilt rules and ornaments; new endpapers. Boards worn along edges, joints tender but very much attached. Early stamped armorial crest and name of former owner on the inside front board. Lacks preliminary blank leaves, contents tight and unmarked, save for a rare few pencil ticks. A good+ copy in a good+ binding. See ESTC No. T138144. 'Tully' is the name by which Marcus Tullius Cicero was known to English readers down to the early nineteenth century. Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the famous Roman orator and statesman, wrote this title about moral duties (known in Latin as 'De Officiis') for his son, and completed it late in 44 B.C. It, along with several other of Cicero's works of the same period, had considerable influence on the Fathers of the early Christian church. St. Ambrose modelled his manual 'De officiis ministrorum' on the Ciceronian original. The author, Thomas Cockman (1675-1745) (who is identified on the title page through a mis-print, as 'Cookman'), was an Oxford academic and administrator, and Master of University College, a position which he maintained only after an acrimonius dispute with William Denison which was finally resolved by appeal to the Crown. This title has gone though at least ten editions since it was first published in 1699; the one preceding our offering being undertaken by Cambridge University in 1776.