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[ARISTOTLE]. GILLIES, John (1747–1834). Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, Comprising his Practical Philosophy. London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1797. 2 volumes, 4to. Half–titles, errata and final ad leaf in Vol. II. Modern blue gray levant, raised bands, gilt fillets in compartments, red morocco spine label, all edges marbled, original marbled endpapers retained (occasional pale spotting to text). FIRST GILLIES EDITION of his important translation of Aristotle’s examinations of the good man and the good citizen with “Perhaps the finest introduction to the study of conduct ever written” (Hornstein, Reader’s Companion to World Literature). From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.