SCOTTISH STOICISM
EPICTETUS.
To tou Epiktetou encheiridion. Ex editione Joannis Upton accurate expressum.
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
32mo in 8s (72 x 49 mm), pp. 95, [1]; a few light marks but otherwise very good internally; in contemporary vellum; some soiling and rubbing.
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To tou Epiktetou encheiridion. Ex editione Joannis Upton accurate expressum.
The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus in Greek, and the first Foulis Epictetus in Greek only. A 1765 reissue was, according to ESTC, reset.
Robert Foulis was appointed printer to the University of Glasgow in 1743, and in the same year published the first Greek book printed in Glasgow; he worked with his brother, Andrew, from 1748. Epictetus’ Encheiridion greatly influenced Western philosophical and political thought, from Antiquity through the Renaissance to the Scottish Enlightenment and to the thought of the Founding Fathers; Adam Smith owned the 12mo Foulis Epictetus of 1748 (Mizuta 575), and Bonar lists in Smith’s library a Glasgow-printed, undated edition, likewise ‘ex editione Joannis Upton’ and described as ‘minimo’.
ESTC T138728; Bondy, p. 24; Gaskell 190.
