A general treatise of morality . form'd upon the principles of natural reason only. With a preface in answer to two essays lately published in the Fable of the bees. And some incidental remarks upon an Inquiry concerning virtue, by the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury. By Richard Fiddes, D.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
Richard Fiddes (1671-1725)
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3124568
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], cxxviii, cxxxix-cxliv, [2], 462 p. 8vo. "E" in "Fiddes" has partially printed. Small rectangluar white label with printed blue border and manuscript "No 149" written on. Eighteenth-century pencil "C&P" on free marbled endpaper verso. Provenance: manuscript on flyleaf in an eighteenth-century hand: E. Mead. Dark blue ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: Eighteenth-century red goat over boards on five raised bands, two bi-fillet gilt rectangular compartments on covers, floral roll within the smaller rectangle, acorn foliate cornerpieces, spine ruled and tooled gilt in compartments (faded to brown) and board edges, gilt edges, double-comb marbled endpapers. Gilt spine title (direct-lettered): Fiddes on morality.
Makers and roles
Richard Fiddes (1671-1725)