First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xii, [2], 476; [4], 468, 20 [publisher’s advertisements dated ‘April, 1872’] pp. Original blue cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, covers with triple blind fillet borders, black coated endpapers (neat contemporary bookseller’s labels of ‘William McGee, Dublin’ to front pastedowns of both volumes, contemporary ownership inscriptions of ‘John Park’ to title pages, contents occasionally dusty with some spotting to outer leaves; extremities rather rubbed, spines darkened, the hinges remain strong and intact, a very good set overall). London, John Murray, 1872.
A comprehensive survey of the life and thought of Aristotle by the philosopher and classical historian George Grote (1794-1871). ‘The work was incomplete when he died, and it was left to Alexander Bain and George Croom Robertson (1842-1892) to edit the surviving manuscripts for the posthumous Aristotle’ (ODNB).
