GILLIES, John (1747-1836, translator & editor). Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. [etc.]

GILLIES, John (1747-1836, translator and editor).  Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, Comprising his Practical Philosophy, Translated from the Greek. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell … and W. Davies, 1797. 2 volumes, 4to (267 x 208mm). Half titles, one-page of publisher’s advertisements at the end of vol. II (half title and title in vol. one spotted, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, more pronounced towards the end of vol. one, [?]lacking errata leaf). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces (joints split or tender, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: “Ian, with love and best wishes, from Sally, October 19^th 1945” (inscription on front free endpaper of vol. one). FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 180. With An Illustration of the Holy Bible, Containing The Sacred Text of The Old testament, and the New; Together with The Apocrypha. The Notes and Comments are Selected from the best Annotators, whereby The Sublime Passages are pointed out, and Some Mis-translations rectified (Stafford: Nicholas Boden [vol. II: Birmingham: Brown and Bentley], 1772-89, 2 vols. bound in one, lacking all the plates found in some copies [but not called for in ESTC], 19^th-century black calf gilt). The lot sold not subject to return. (3)