PLUTARCH; LANGHORNE, John & William (translators).
Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men.
Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men.
Translated from the Greek. With notes critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch.
Stock Code 119928
London, Chatto and Windus, 1876.
Composed in the second century AD, these 48 biographic essays remain an important source on leading Greek and Roman figures from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts.
With provenance for the Liberal MP Richard Fothergill (1822-1903). He was elected to the House of Commons in 1868 for the constituency of Merthyr Tydfil, following the expansion of the suffrage with the passing of the Second Reform Act the previous year.
2 vols; 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); engraved frontispiece to vol. I, in-text illustrations, text in two columns, ownership inscription in pencil to title of each vol., bookplates to front pastedowns, offsetting to title, occasional minor spotting; contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt spines in 6 compartments, contrasting navy morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, a little rubbed, very good; xxx, 584; [2], [585]-1133, [1]pp.
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