Samuel Fox Translator (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. 298 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Cover boards bound in blue, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket has a touch of agewear, A little foxing on top edge. Clean inside, binding tight, in great shape. Record # 31153.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Printed in England. Date on the title page. Later Printing. English and Anglo-Saxon on facing pages throughout. Two Prefaces; Detailed Contents, Boethius: XLII (42) Chapters; The Anglo-Saxon Version of The Metres of Boethius, with an English Free Translation, by Martin F. Tupper; Notes; Glossary; xix, 398 pages, followed by 32 pages of publisher's (Bohn's) ads. The original brown cloth is very good, with gilt lettering bright on the gently bumped spine. The interior leaves are creamy-bright despite toning of the top-edge, with a few spots on the fore-edge and on the half-title. Endpapers are a pale yellow. My philosopher-father left pencil marks on fewer than 20 of the early pages, leaving more than 400 pages completely clean. [Please see my 9 images of the actual book.] "[I]f to the king there be a want of anything desired, then that lessens his power, and augments his misery. . . . [F]or I know that the king who is rapacious has more wretchedness than power. . . . How does it now appear to thee? How do wealth and power please thee, when they are never without fear, and difficulties, and anxieties?" (Page 103---chosen at random.) As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.…