BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (ca 480-524). Five Bookes of Philosophicall Comfort. London: John Windet for Matthew Lownes, 1609.

8vo (153 x 101 mm). Woodcut printer's emblem on title-page; text and shoulder notes printed within rule border. (Lacking A1, blank, some staining and spotting primarily to first few leaves, shoulder note on p.10 partly obscured by adhesion, corner of p.95/96 renewed affecting a few letters of catchword.) Later sprinkled calf, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, smooth spine gilt. Provenance: A few early markings on first leaf of Book One; Will Gray[?] (signature on title-page, 1933).

The first 17th-century translation of the Consolation, which heavily influenced the philosophy of late antiquity and Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, translated by Elizabethan Jesuit Michael Walpole. ESTC S102854.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio