Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.

HEGEL (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich).

Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.

“THE OWL OF MINERVA SPREADS ITS WINGS ONLY WITH THE COMING OF THE DUSK."

First edition. 8vo. [1, blank], [1, preliminary title page], xxvi, 355, [1] pp. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper covered boards, flat spine panelled with simple gilt rolls, second panel lettered in gilt on red leather label, red edges (neat contemporary book label ‘Buchhandlung von E.S. Mittler, in Posen am Markt Nro go.’ to front pastedown, modern book label to front free endpaper, endpapers with partial offsetting to turn-ins, faint creasing to blank fore margins of pp. 115-120 and 183-188, faint creasing to upper corners of pp. 241-244, not effecting text, contents otherwise generally unmarked with only minimal browning; sensitive restoration to head of front joint, neatly recornered, notwithstanding a really excellent copy). Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1821.

£3,750.00

An attractive copy of the last of Hegel’s major works to be published in his lifetime, one of the greatest works of political philosophy, compiled from a series of lectures Hegel delivered at the University of Heidelberg. The preface is the source of the hugely famous quote by Hegel: ‘when philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the coming of the dusk.’

Although the imprint states 1821, the book was in fact published in 1820, as Hegel expected publication to be delayed by censorship. Complete with the usual additional title-page: ‘Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse. Zum Gebrauch für seine Vorlesungen’.

From the library of the German publisher Ernest Siegfried Mittler (1785-1870), with his neat contemporary book label to the front pastedown.

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