Author: FOULIS PRESS. ARISTOTLE.
Title: Aristotelous peri kosmou, pros Alexandron. Aristotelis de Mundo liber, ad Alexandrum. Cum versione Latina Gulielmi Budaei.
Description: Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat R. Foulis..., 1745. 12mo (in 6s), 145 x 82 mms., pp. [iv], [1] - 76 [77 - 78 errata, 79 contents, 80 blank], with the adverts leaf after the title-page, contemporary mottled calf; library stamp on lower margin of title-page and library shelf marks on verso of title-page, labels removed from end-papers, binding a little rubbed, but a good copy with the slightly bizarre engraved bookplate of William Gilpin, depicting a wild boar on a shield, with Gilpin's pencil inscription "Hunc Libellus/ Bib Gul. Gilpin/ A A D D" on the recto of the leaf before the title-page. The bookplate is probably that of the author William Gilpin (1724 - 1804), whose Essay on Prints (1768) was an 18th century best-seller. Possibly he etched the bookplate himself, or it was done by his brother Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807), who was a well-known painter of animals. The work is erroneously attributed to Aristotle; it is also the first edition of this work to be published by one of the Foulis brothers, and there were no subsequent editions. Gaskell 59.

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