THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS & ROMANES, 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 the fifteen Supplementary Lives of 1603. Complete in five volumes, totalling approximately 2,400 pages, with 56 plates (those in Volume II with tissue guards) and a pictorial headpiece, publisher's device on title pages; narrow med. 4to; brown buckram over bevelled boards, printed paper title labels on spines, the boards a trifle rubbed, some of the fore-corners slightly bruised, the title labels lightly browned and a couple slightly foxed, the label for Volume slightly chipped; spare labels tipped-in at end; uncut, top edges gilt on the rough; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedowns, the free endpapers offset, a little faint offsetting from the tissue guards in Volume II, edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1929-1930. Edition limited to l,550 numbered copies. McKitterick 63. *Originally from the library of Geoffrey Keynes, with his bookplate on the upper pastedown and inked signature (dated Sept. 1929) on the upper free endpaper in Volume I. Item #182251
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