Title: The lives, opinions, and remarkable sayings of the most famous ancient philosophers. Written in Greek, by Diogenes Laertius. Made English by several hands
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="nl-be" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="nl-be">2 vols. in 8vo. <span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">v. 1: pp. [16], 589, [5] (blank); v. 2: pp.
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">[2] (blank), [4], 460, [2] (blank).</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Contemporary
panelled calf; Jolliffe bookplates. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Full-page engraved portrait of Diogenes Laertius facing title
page of vol. 1. In vol. 2, separate title page (p. [297]): "A Continuation
of Diogenes Laertius: wherein is contain'd the lives of several others of the
ancient philosophers; written in Greek by Eunapius of Sardis; translated from
the Greek, by E. Smith, M. A." with imprint: "London, printed in the
year 1696."</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First
edition in English of this source for many traditional forgeries. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">First book translated by T. Fetherstone, D.D.;
2d book by Samuel White, M.D.; 3d by E. Smith, M.A.; 4th by J. Philips, gent.;
5th by R. Kippax, M.A.; 6th by William Baxter, gent.; 7th by R.M., gent. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See Bib# 4348052/Fr#
13 in this collection; D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books
Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2<sup>nd</sup>
ed.), D 1516-17 (the latter incorrectly designated by Wing as ‘another edition’
of D 1516); A. Freeman, “Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic
Reflections on the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.),
<span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Literary
forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, </span><span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">Baltimore, </span><span style="color:#212529;">2018, p. 18, 25.</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></p><p></p>

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