Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes, Critical and Historical. And a Memoir of the Translator.

Hardback, no D/J. xx, 748pp. nd. [circa 1881]. A small abrasion and some marking to boards and spine. The book is in good used condition. Coffee Brown cloth, with some signs of shelf wear. Plutarchs Lives translated by John and William Langhorne. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.The contents include an introduction and chapters entitled :-Alcibiades; Caius Marcus Coriolanus; Alcibiades and Coriolanus compared; Nicias; Marcus Crassus ; Nicias and Crassus, Alexander; Julius Caesar; Demosthenes; Cicero; Demosthenes and Cicero. At the back of The book is a (6) page Chronological table, and an account of Weights, Measures, and Denominations of Money table. There is much more to this; 748 page book than one first assumes. Deep in History it travels to where many books do not, and reads easily. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…