16mo, cream cloth boards, black titles, 311pp. Typographic unpriced dust jacket, housed in plain slipcase. Stated 6th printing, 1979 to dust jacket front flap. Toning and small soil dot to spine panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. ‘A truthtelling manual and the art of worldly wisdom…being a collection of the aphorisms which appear in the works of Baltasar Gracian’, Spanish Jesuit priest and baroque writer. Translated from the original 1653 Spanish text by Martin Fischer of the University of Cincinnati. A nice copy, rather scarce.