John Spencer was a 17th-century English author who compiled an anthology of stories from numerous writers. In this collection Spencer features the writings of famous figures such as Socrates, Walter Raleigh, Valerius Maximus, Cicero, Plato, Pythagoras, Philip Melanchthon, Herodotus, Peter Lombard, and Aristotle. Bound in leather. Boards are intact, but pages are as worn as expected for being hundreds of years old.