[NONESUCH PRESS]; PLUTARCH; North, Thomas (translator).
The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustrations by T.L. Poulton: with fifteen supplementary lives of 1603.
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
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The Nonesuch edition of Plutarch's lives following the text of the first English language translation by Thomas North originally published in 1579.
Composed in the second century AD, Plutarch's biographical work remains 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.
Number 659 of 1550 limited edition copies; 5 vols; folio (31.5 x 21 cm); numbered in pen to limitation page, full-page illustrations by T.L. Poulton, slightly toned, spare spine labels to rear pastedowns; publisher's buckram cloth, paper labels to spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, slightly soiled, very good.
Composed in the second century AD, Plutarch's biographical work remains 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.
Number 659 of 1550 limited edition copies; 5 vols; folio (31.5 x 21 cm); numbered in pen to limitation page, full-page illustrations by T.L. Poulton, slightly toned, spare spine labels to rear pastedowns; publisher's buckram cloth, paper labels to spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, slightly soiled, very good.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans
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