Epicurus's Morals, Collected and Faithfully Englished

Walter Charleton's 1656 text, here published in a limited edition and with an essay by Frederic Manning

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Printing Details

First edition. Limited to 750 copies. Hardback, bound in patterned paper covered boards. Fore-edge untrimmed. 23 × 14cm, xliii, [18], 119pp.

Walter Charleton (1619–1707) was an English philosopher who channelled Epicurus's ideas into England in the seventeenth century, his work on Epicurus being first published in 1656. The foundation of Epicurus's thought was that simple pleasure is good (eudaimonia) and can be achieved by the absence of pain (aponia) and disturbance (ataraxia). This edition carries a lengthy introductory essay by Frederic Manning, the Australian poet and author, best known for his Great War novel The Middle Parts of Fortune.

Condition

A good copy. The boards are sunned and a bit rubbed and there is spotted foxing to the prelims. The main body of text is in strong readable condition. The inner binding secure.