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London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 1813. [2], xxiv, 336pp. Contemporary dark green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Adhesive residue to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. A revised edition of naturalist and theologian John Ray's (1627-1705) catalogue of traditional English maxims and aphorisms; a radical departure from usual publications on botany or natural history that nevertheless has come to be considered one of his most important works. Notably, American polymath Benjamin Franklin appropriated many of these proverbs, without acknowledgement (though he did not go so far as to claim authorship), in Poor Richard's Almanac. . Fifth edition. 8vo.

London: George Cowie and Co. 1813, 5th edition. (Hardcover) 336pp. Good. Contemporary modest 3 / 4 leather rebinding with plain boards. Worn, the endpapers are missing, foxing and notations in faded ink throughout the text, and a previous owner's armorial bookplate on the inside cover. Revised by John Balfour. (Proverbs, Proverbs, Quotations).