[SPECIAL PRESS] THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, COMPARED TOGETHER BY THAT GRAVE LEARNED PHILOSOPHER & HIS HISTORIOGRAPHER, PLUTARKE OF CHAERONEA [8 VOLUMES]
Published by Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, 1928
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Eight quarto volumes; in black half-morocco over orange cloth; with raised bands elaborately ruled in gilt and lettered in gilt; Volume I has been very discreetly rebacked with all of the original spine laid down (see the photographs).~~This edition limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 63; on handmade papers and in the deluxe binding. Signed by the artist, Thomas Lowinsky. Edition bound by Morley of Oxford, stamped on the front pastedown. This edition maintains the archaic spelling and punctuation of the 1579 Plutarch. Quite nice set, in eight volumes. Volume I has been most discreetly rebacked.~~Contents: V. 1. Theseus. Romulus. Lycurgus. Numa Pompilus. Solon. Publius Valerius Publicola. Themistocles. Furius Camillus -- v. 2. Pericles. Fabius Maximus. Alcibiades. Caius Martius Coriolanus. Paulus Aemilius. Timoleon -- v. 3. Pelopidas. Marcellus. Aristides. Marcus Cato. Philopoemen. Titus Quintus Flaminius. Pyrrus. Caius Marius -- v. 4. Lysander. Sylla. Cimon. Lucius Lucullus. Nicias. Marcus Crassus. Sertorius. Eumenes -- v. 5. Agesilaus. Pompey. Alexander the great. Iulius Caesar. Phocion. Cato Utican -- v. 6. Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius, and Caius Gracchi. Demosthenes. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Demetrius. Marcus Antonius -- v. 7. Artaxerxes. Dion. Marcus Brutus. Aratus. Galba. Otho. Annibal. Scipio African -- v. 8. Epaminondas. Philip of Macedon. Dionysius. Octavius Caesar Augustus. Plutarch. Seneca. Nine excellent chieftanes of war. Miltiades. Pausanias. Thrasybulus. Conon. Iphicrates. Chabrias. Timotheus. Datames. Hamilcar. …
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- [SPECIAL PRESS] THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, COMPARED TOGETHER BY THAT GRAVE LEARNED PHILOSOPHER & HIS HISTORIOGRAPHER, PLUTARKE OF CHAERONEA [8 VOLUMES]
- Author
- Plutarch | Thomas North [Translator]
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- Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon
- Publication year
- 1928
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
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