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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). Four scholarly works published by Oxford University's prestigious Clarendon Press, including classics from Aristotle and Hobbes, as well as essays on historical legacy. Four charming works from Oxford University's Clarendon Press, including scarce impressions, published between 1926-1960.In the publisher's original cloth, in the original clipped dust wrappers.Renowned for its scholarly excellence, a work published by the Clarendon Press is an authoritative marker for showing a work is academically rigorous. These four volumes include classics within political philosophy, Aristotle and Hobbes, as well as essays on the historical legacy of the Middle Ages and India.- The Legacy of the Middle Ages, edited by C.G. Crump and E.F. Jacob. An early impression, first published in 1926. Contains a frontispiece, as well as all forty-one other illustrated plates. Collated complete. (1927).- Hobbes's Leviathan, reprinted from the edition of 1651, with an essay by the late W.G. Pogson Smith. A scarce impression, first published in 1909. Contains one illustrated plate of the iconic decorative title leaf from the original work. (1929).- The Legacy of India, edited by G.T. Garratt, with an introduction by the Marquess of Zetland. An early reprint, first published in 1937. Contains a frontispiece, a folding map of Indian and Levant trade routes to the rear, and all other twenty-three illustrated plates. Collated complete. (1938).- The Politics of Aristotle, translated with notes by Ernest Barker. The shortened edition. A scarce impression, first published in 1948. (1960). In the publisher's original cloth, in the original clipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart, with the odd small mark, minimal to Aristotle, a little heavier to rear board of India. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spine, and to the extremities. Dust wrappers are generally bright and clean, with signs of browning and fading, heavier to India. The odd small mark to rear of India wrapper. Slight edgewear, with the odd small chip to the head and tail of wrapper spines, and to the extremities, a little heavier to India. End papers are bright and mostly clean, with the odd faint spot to India, and the odd small mark to Leviathan, lighter to Middle Ages. Bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown of Middle. Ink inscriptions to front free end papers of Middle Ages and Leviathan. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning to India extremities. Very Good Indeed. book.