1683 ENGLISH Lucretius Philosophy De Rerum Natura Epicurus FAMOUS Oxford Creech

1683 ENGLISH Lucretius Philosophy De Rerum Natura Epicurus FAMOUS Oxford Creech

A long passionate poem, while unfinished, describes the world according to Epicurean principles.

This rare 17^th-century edition of Lucretius’s only work ‘Nature of Things’ was edited and translated by Thomas Creech. It is because of Creech’s 1682 translation of this work that he was given a fellowship at Oxford. The success of his first attempt at Lucretius induced him to take work on an edition that would become massively popular throughout the English-speaking world.

Item number: #26524

Price: $650

LUCRETIUS, Titus

Titus Lucretius Carus, his six books of Epicurean philosophy

London: Printed for Thomas Sawbridge at the three Flower-de-luces in Little Brittain, and Anthony Stephens bookseller near the theatre in Oxford, 1683.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [44], 223, [1]; 60 (i.e., 62), [6]
• References: Wing L 3449a
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18.5cm x 12.5cm)

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