The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes
[Nonesuch Press] - PLUTARCH.
compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaerona. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustarations by T.L. Poulton: with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603.
Stock Code 104576
London, Nonesuch Press, 1929-1930
Limited edition, number 856 of 1050; 5 vols, 4to (332 x 215 mm); with a full-page engraved portrait for each 'biography' or chapter; publisher's brown cloth, bevelled boards, original paper labels to spine and a spare one for each vol. at he rear, as published, top edges gilt, tarnished, generally toned and dust-soiled, slight stains to upper boards of vols I. IV & V , otherwise very sound and internally fine.
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