North Thomas Translator (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Publisher's original green cloth boards, black titles to spine and OUP device in black to front board.

Condition: Fair. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Limited edition of 1050 copies for sale in England. Volume I. 4to original brown buckram with paper spine labels. Top-edge gilt, the remaining uncut. 431pp. B/W illustrations by T.L. Poulton. Fair book. Cover heavily worn with eroded spine. Board edges worn with additional staining and light scratching. Edges foxing. The interior mostly VG with offset endpapers and the detached bookplate of "Walter P. Chrysler", founder of Chrysler Corporation, laid in. Inquire if you need further information.…

Condition: Fair. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Limited edition of 1050 copies for sale in England. Volume III. 4to original brown buckram with paper spine labels. Top-edge gilt, the remaining uncut. 454pp. B/W illustrations by T.L. Poulton. Fair book. Cover heavily worn with eroded spine. Board edges worn with additional staining and light scratching. Edges foxing. The interior mostly VG with offset endpapers and the detached bookplate of "Walter P. Chrysler", founder of Chrysler Corporation, laid in. Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gift inscription on ffep. Spines discolored. Slipcase is faie. Volume 1 has tear on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: very good -. First edition thus. Quarto. 2 volumes. xvii, (1), 338, (xix)-xxxii; (6), 231, (1), (vii)-xlix, (1) pp. including 25 page glossary. Dark blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Binding is sound but covers and spine are lightly spotted (old insect tracks?). Contents: v. 1. Lycurgus.- Themistocles.- Fabius.- Alcibiades.- Coriolanus.- Marius.- Sylla.- Nicias.- Crassus.- Alexander the Great. v. 2. Julius Caesar.- Demosthenes.- Cicero.- Antonius.- Brutus.- Aratus. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. A good set of the five Nonesuch volumes. Bound in original buckram with beveled edges. Volume 1 has small pull to head of spine and other volumes have some rubbing to the buckram. Paper spine labels darkened by spare label in the back of each volume. Internally all volumes fresh and clean internally. An unumbered set all volumes bear the ink signature of David Garnett, Garnett was a director of the Nonesuch Press as well as being an bookseller, author and editor. Edited the letters of T.E. Lawrence. Lived at Hilton Hall, then in Huntingdon. Also inside the front board the bookplate of collector Beryl Hinds-Howell, who presumably acquired the set from the Garnett library. An interest association set that is clean and sound. Poulton, T.L. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unread. Pages still uncut. No DJ. Scuffed covers. Rubbing to all edges. Sunned spine. Covers and front and back free pages have staining to edges. Binding is tight. No markings in book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Unread. Pages still uncut after page 90. No DJ. Scuffed covers. Rubbing to all edges. Sunned spine. Covers and front and back free pages have staining to edges. Binding is tight. No markings in book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Lightly read. Scuffed covers. Rubbing to all edges. Sunned spine. Covers and front and back free pages have staining to edges. Binding is tight. No markings in book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. dj: none. books: both vols fine with these exceptions: 1) bookplates inside f covers. 2) fep missing on vol 2. attractive copies.

Condition: Very Good. The Heritage Press New York 1941 8vo. complete 2 volume set. in slipcase which is worn. white cloth illustrated boards. spine slightly age toned. binding tight. pages bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volume leatherbound set. Covers show tiny/hardly visible hints of corner wear. Binding on both volumes separating from spine, but still strong. A few small scuffs to gilt on textblocks. Pages very lightly warped, otherwise clean and crisp. Otherwise books are very clean, sharp, sturdy, and attractive. Photos available upon request.…

The Nonesuch edition of Plutarch's lives following the text of the first English language translation by Thomas North originally published in 1579. Composed in the second century AD, Plutarch's biographical work remains an important source of the lives and careers of leading figures from Greek and Roman history, from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, and Demosthenes to Cicero, recording events and anecdotes that do not appear in other contemporary accounts. Number 659 of 1550 limited edition copies; 5 vols; folio (31.5 x 21 cm); numbered in pen to limitation page, full-page illustrations by T.L. Poulton, slightly toned, spare spine labels to rear pastedowns; publisher's buckram cloth, paper labels to spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, slightly soiled, very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folio, 1244pp plus table. A good copy in contemporary calf rebacked with most of the spine preserved, new end papers. Some staining and to the upper part of the text, generally at the end with an archival repair to the head of the title page. Illustrated with portraits throughout. The work - he Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus: Collected out of Good Authors, comprises the second part of the volume. An early English translation, the 1595 edition is said to be a Shakespeare source.…

Limited Edition. 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.…