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TAYLOR'S ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE. The Works . . . Translated from the Greek. With Copious Elucidationsfrom the Best of his Greek Commentators . . . By Thomas Taylor. 11 volumes. With collective half-titles and titles dated 1812 in all but the last 2 volumes, and with individual half-titles except as noted below. 4to, 298x235 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining 19th-century morocco lettering pieces; pencil shelfmark on volume titles, scattered foxing, occasional toning. London, (1806-)1812; 1801
First complete edition in English, limited to only fifty sets and infrequently found complete, published in 10 volumes comprising the first editions of Taylor's translations (apart from the second edition of The Metaphysics) and his Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle. This set also includes the 1801 first edition of The Metaphysics, containing a lengthy introduction by Taylor and his Dissertation on Nullities, which were omitted from the second edition. Hoffmann I, 355; Lowndes, page 68. I--The Organon; or, Logical Treatise. Signed by Taylor on the last page. [6], 844 pages. 1807 II--The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics. [4], xxviii, 604 pages. 1811 III--The Great, and Eudemian, Ethics, the Politics, and Economics. [4], viii, 535 pages. Browning on pages 416-17 from laid-in slip of paper. 1811 IV--The Physics. [4], [iii]-xix, [1], 575 pages; lacks individual half-title. Signed by Taylor on the last page. 1806 V--The Treatises . . . On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption, and On Meteors. [6], vii, [1], 608 pages; lacks individual half-title. Engraved plate. 1807 VI--The History of Animals . . . and his Treatise on Physiognomy. [4], xxi, [1], 487 pages. 1809 VII--The Treatises . . . On the Parts and Progressive Motion of Animals; His Problems; and his Treatise on Indivisible Lines . . . To which are added, The Elements of the True Arithmetic of Infinites, &c. By Thomas Taylor. [4], vii, [1], 607, [1]; viii, 62 pages 2 parts in one volume. Without the addendum slip. 1810-09 VIII--The Treatises on the Soul [etc.]. [4], [iii]-xlv, [1], 520 pages; lacks individual half-title. 1808 IX--The Metaphysics [etc.]. [Second edition]. Folding engraved plate (foxed). [4], [iii]-xxix, [3], 686 pages; lacks individual half-title. 1812 X--The Metaphysics . . . to which is added, A Dissertation on Nullities and Diverging Series . . . by Thomas Taylor. [4], lv, [1], 467, [1] pages. 1801 XI--Taylor. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle. [iii]-xxviii, 577 pages. Browning on last 2 pages from laid-in slip of paper. 1812.
