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Plutarch's Lives.
An attractive five-volume set in full crushed red morocco of Plutarch's Lives, this edition following the English-language translation attributed to the poet and dramatist John Dryden revised by A.H. Clough, late Professor of the English Language and Literature at University College, London.
Composed in the second century AD, these 48 biographic essays remain an important source of the lives and careers of leading figures from Greek and Roman history, from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts.
5 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I, titles and endpapers with moderate spotting, more occasional thereafter; crushed red morocco by Holloway, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and marked, very good.
Composed in the second century AD, these 48 biographic essays remain an important source of the lives and careers of leading figures from Greek and Roman history, from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts.
5 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I, titles and endpapers with moderate spotting, more occasional thereafter; crushed red morocco by Holloway, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and marked, very good.
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An attractive five-volume set in full crushed red morocco of Plutarch's Lives, this edition following the English-language translation attributed to the poet and dramatist John Dryden revised by A.H. Clough, late Professor of the English Language and Literature at University College, London.
Composed in the second century AD, these 48 biographic essays remain an important source of the lives and careers of leading figures from Greek and Roman history, from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts.
5 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I, titles and endpapers with moderate spotting, more occasional thereafter; crushed red morocco by Holloway, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and marked, very good.
Composed in the second century AD, these 48 biographic essays remain an important source of the lives and careers of leading figures from Greek and Roman history, from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts.
5 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I, titles and endpapers with moderate spotting, more occasional thereafter; crushed red morocco by Holloway, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and marked, very good.
