Platonis Opera Quae Feruntur Omnia. Recognoverunt Io. Georgius Baiterus Io. Caspar Orellius Aug. Guilielmus Winckelmannus. Accedunt Integra Varietas Lectionis Stephianae, Bekkerianae, Stallbaumianae, Scholia et Nominum Index [Plato, Works]

  • Leather Bound
  • Turici: Impensis Meyeri & Zelleri, Successorum Ziegleri & Filiorum, 1842
By [Hellenic Studies] [Ex-libris Edward Knowles Corrie] [Eton College] [English Barristers] [English Law] [English Academics] Plato; J. G. Baiter, Johann Kaspar von Orelli, and August Wilhelm Winckelmann
Turici: Impensis Meyeri & Zelleri, Successorum Ziegleri & Filiorum, 1842. Later printing. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1073pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Rebound in full brown leather, with five spine compartments, and a leather spine label with "Platonis Opera Orellius" in gilt. New endpapers and flyleaves. Text block cracked at the beginning, but still strong. Barely perceptible ink stamp on front flyleaf. Short tape repairs to several pages. Manuscript notations and markings on pp. 809-811. Text primarily in Greek, but with some Latin.

Contents:

Eutyphro -- Apologia -- Crito -- Phaedo -- Theages -- Amatores -- Theaetetus -- Sophista -- Euthydemus -- Protagoras -- Hippias minor -- Cratylus -- Gorgias -- Io -- Philebus -- Meno -- Alcibiades primus -- Alcibiades secundus -- Charmides -- Laches -- Lysis -- Hipparchus -- Menexenus -- Politicus -- Minos -- Res publica -- Leges -- Epinomis -- Timaeus -- Timaeus Locrus -- Critias -- Parmenides -- Convivium -- Phaedrus -- Hippias maior -- Epistolae -- Axiochus -- De iusto -- De virtute -- Demodocus -- Sisyphus -- Eryxias -- Clitophon -- Definitiones -- Scholia -- Glossarium Platonicum -- Onomasticum.

Contemporary owner's inscription in pen on front blank: "E. K. Corrie / Eton College / January 1870." "E. K. Corrie" refers to Lincoln's Inn barrister E. Knowles Corrie, who was a student of the Inner Temple, a King's Scholar at Eton College, a Fellow of King's College, and a member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Edward Knowles Corrie (1853-1937) was called to bar 3, July, 1878. He is listed in "Second series of Eton school lists, comprising the years between 1853 and 1892, with notes and index" by H.E.C. Stapylton, under the year 1868, on pp. 323 and 339. In 1891, he was a barrister living in Ealing with his wife Mildred Alice (Cooke) Corrie and their two children. The works of Plato (429? - 347 B.C.E) in Greek. Plato is recognized as one of the most powerful, far-reaching, and influential authors in the history of philosophy. An association copy with an interesting connection to the 19th-century English academic world and law profession.

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