[Rarebooks] FS: Boethius, Of the Consolation of Philosophy (Trans. Richard Preston, 1695)

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Boethius [Anicius Manlius Severinus].  Of the Consolation of 
Philosophy.  In Five Books. Made English and Illustrated with Notes by 
the Rt. Hon. Richard Lord Viscount Preston (Richard Graham). London: 
Awnsham and John Churchill, 1695.  First edition of this translation. 20 
cm x 12 cm, xxxii, 246 pp., errata, blank. Engraved portrait of 
Boethius. Apparently contemporary calf (worn) with gilt title, 
decoration on spine. Text is browned throughout but otherwise very clean 
(absent marginalia, etc.).  Skillfully replaced end papers.  First “made 
English” by Alfred the Great,  The Consolation of Philosophy  was one of 
the most influential books of the Middle Ages.  Graham, himself a 
condemned prisoner in the Tower, must have seen the similarity of  their 
situations, for Boethius composed this meditation in the condemned cells 
at Pavia early in the 6th Century.  Viscount Preston was pardoned and 
released from prison, where upon he set out to complete this 
translation. Anicius Manlius Serverinus did not survive his 
imprisonment.  850.00 USD

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William Van Nest

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