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The Extant Works of Epicurus, published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947 – a fine-press edition of the surviving writings of the Greek philosopher. Near Fine.
The Limited Editions Club produced some of the finest American illustrated books of the 20th century, each issued in a numbered edition for members. This volume collects the surviving letters, principal doctrines and fragments of Epicurus (341–270 BC), whose philosophy of tranquillity, friendship and freedom from fear remains widely read today.
Only a small part of Epicurus's enormous output survives, chiefly the three letters preserved by Diogenes Laertius (to Herodotus on physics, to Pythocles on celestial phenomena and to Menoeceus on ethics), the Principal Doctrines and scattered sayings and fragments. This volume presents those surviving writings, the essential primary texts for a philosophy that taught that pleasure, rightly understood as freedom from pain and anxiety, is the goal of life, and that death is nothing to fear.
Fine-press editions from the Limited Editions Club are prized for their typography, paper, illustration and binding, and are increasingly collected in their own right. A Near Fine copy of a 1940s LEC title is a pleasing find.
Epicurus (341–270 BC) founded his school, the Garden, in Athens. His ideas were carried into the Roman world by Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and have found new readers in modern discussions of happiness, atomism and the good life.
Ideal for: collectors of fine-press and Limited Editions Club books, students of classical philosophy, and readers of Stoic and Epicurean ethics.
Carefully packed and shipped from Australia. Questions about this copy, or want more photos? Get in touch.
The Extant Works of Epicurus, published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947 – a fine-press edition of the surviving writings of the Greek philosopher. Near Fine.
The Limited Editions Club produced some of the finest American illustrated books of the 20th century, each issued in a numbered edition for members. This volume collects the surviving letters, principal doctrines and fragments of Epicurus (341–270 BC), whose philosophy of tranquillity, friendship and freedom from fear remains widely read today.
Only a small part of Epicurus's enormous output survives, chiefly the three letters preserved by Diogenes Laertius (to Herodotus on physics, to Pythocles on celestial phenomena and to Menoeceus on ethics), the Principal Doctrines and scattered sayings and fragments. This volume presents those surviving writings, the essential primary texts for a philosophy that taught that pleasure, rightly understood as freedom from pain and anxiety, is the goal of life, and that death is nothing to fear.
Fine-press editions from the Limited Editions Club are prized for their typography, paper, illustration and binding, and are increasingly collected in their own right. A Near Fine copy of a 1940s LEC title is a pleasing find.
Epicurus (341–270 BC) founded his school, the Garden, in Athens. His ideas were carried into the Roman world by Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and have found new readers in modern discussions of happiness, atomism and the good life.
Ideal for: collectors of fine-press and Limited Editions Club books, students of classical philosophy, and readers of Stoic and Epicurean ethics.
Carefully packed and shipped from Australia. Questions about this copy, or want more photos? Get in touch.
