Plutarke (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. volume V only, 410pp hardback, brown buckram with printed label to spine bevelled boards, untrimmed edges, illustrated, ex-library with usual stamps and labels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Limited edition of 1050 copies, this copy being number 1051 ( out of series ?) Five volumes. Format, folio, 312mm. Physical description, [4], [2] iii- xviii [2], 1 - 431 [1]; [8] 1 - 442; [8]1 - 454; [8], 1 - 482; [8],1 - 410 [2]. Portrait illustration of each life. Uncut. Top edges gilt. The contents are clean, bright, crisp and tight Publishers brown buckram, slightly faded, over bevel edged boards. Each volume with an intact printed paper label. Free endpapers lightly browned. Each volume with a spare printed paper label on the rear pastedowns. Overall, a very good plus set. The portrait illustrations for each life are by T. L. Poulton and printed by the Curwen Press printed in Monotype Fournier on Arches paper. This splendid edition is Thomas North's translation of Amyot' s French version of Plutarch' s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the 3rd edition of 1603.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 7 Volume set, Volume 6 is missing. Limited edition number 9 of 500 copies produced. This limitation number can only be found in Volume 1. The set could be broken for a reasonable offer. The boards of all 7 volumes are edge rubbed but tidy overall. The binding of all 7 volumes are secure. Volume 1's end papers are tanned and mildly foxed. No inscriptions or annotations in either. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Five Volumes all brown cloth with bevelled edges and - a nice set limited to 1550 copies this one 895, a few marks to the cloth, but nothing very much, Vol.1 - 431pp, Vol. 2 - 442pp, Vol. 3 - 454pp, Vol. 4 - 482pp, Vol. 5 - 410pp, illustrated, all bin.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 5 volumes, illustrated by T. L. Poulton. Some rippling and staining to the cloth on the rear board of volume II, else a crisp, clean set, near fine, in the publisher's light brown buckram with beveled boards and printed spine labels. Corners gently bumped, faintest rubbing to boards, and even toning to the spine labels, but a very clean, sound set. One of 1550 limited sets. A nicely illustrated set, printed in the style of 17th and 18th century English bookmaking. As with so many Nonesuch publications, an inexplicable bargain in today's market.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 8 volumes, illustrated. A fine, crisp set in the publisher's pale blue boards with navy cloth spines. Only the most trivial shelfwear, and dust-soiling to the top edges, but a handsome, unmolested set with sharp corners; very clean internally. This is number 429 of 500 limited sets of the large paper edition. Attractive set fit for any scholar.

A handsome set of the one of the Shakespeare Head Press's many fine collected editions of famous works of English literature, in this case Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives. Presented in eight volumes, quarter bound in black cloth with leather spine labels and paper covered boards. Number 334 of 500 copies produced for Houghton Mifflin for distribution in the United States. Each life is adorned with a headpiece portrait of the subject by Thomas Lowinsky. Octavo. A near fine set, with crisp spines and sound boards, with some unobtrusive rubbing on the edges and corners. As often the case, some initial and final pages of the volumes have some light foxing. Franklin 2nd ed., page 356.

Large Folio Binding 14"x10". Condition: VG. PLUTARCH'S LIVES THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS & ROMAINES Compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer,? PLUTARKE OF CHAERONEA? Translated out of Greeke into French? by? James Amiot abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings priuie Counsell, and great Amner of France.? With the lives of Hannibal and of Scipio African: translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l'Escluse, and out of French into English,? by? Sir THOMAS NORTH KNIGHT Hereunto are also added the liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Sicilia,? of Augustus C?sar, of Plutarke, and of Seneca: with the liues of nine other excellent chiefetaines of warre:? collected out of ?mylius Probus, by S.G.S. and Englished by the aforesaid translator LONDON: Printed by Richard Field. Anno Dom. 1612 [published date: 1612]. CONDITION REPORT: A rare book in fine original full calf leather binding, gilt ruled spine rebacked with the original spine & red morocco label relaid; the 5 raised bands redone in antique style, using matching brown calf leather , with the original red gilt lettered morocco label present; some wear, tear, scuffing, rubbing to covers, spine, ends & corners (See Photos), pages with some age toning, sporadic spotting, soiling, are clean & bright (See Scans below), the binding is tight & intact. The leather is smooth & supple to the touch. Note: Rebacked -relaid spine. Two ?Previous owners bookplates on the front pastedown & another on the front blank ?(See Scans below). ? A very rare - scarce title. Complete as issued. Rare Early edition. Thick Folio 13.5" x 9.5" inches (LxB). Pp. [14], 1244, [32, index] pages, several wood engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials and ornaments, illustrations. Early and highly desirable edition of the first English translation of Plutarch?s Lives, one of the most influential works of the Elizabethan era and a major Shakespeare source. North's celebrated translation of Plutarch has long been recognized as a major source for Shakespeare, providing not only the historical framework for Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, but 'long passages of magnificent prose' that Shakespeare put 'into blank verse with little change' (F. E. Halliday). Dedicated to Elizabeth I, North's Plutarch first appeared in 1579 and was reprinted in 1595. The third edition (1603) was the first to add new material, appending lives translated from L'Escluse. There were no additions in the next two editions (1612, 1631), but, having been encouraged 'to venture upon a new and fifth impression', the stationer William Lee, wishing to render it 'both acceptable to the present Age, and famous to Posterity, decided to add the 'quintessence' of Andr? Thevet's Pourtraits et vies des Hommes illustres Grecz, Latin, et Payens (Paris, 1584), being 'the very marrow of his observations during his twenty three yeers travails and Peregrinations, throughout the chiefest and remotest parts in the world (never as yet extant nor seen in English)'.Among the new biographies from Thevet (mostly translated by the playwright George Gerbier d'Ouvilly) are those of Aristotle, Homer, Sappho, Charlemagne, Tamburlaine, Atabalipa King of Peru, and Gutenberg, with a two-page poem commemorating his life and 'the Excellency of the Art of Printing'.Wing P 2633.? "The Lives are works of great learning and research, and Plutarch is careful to quote his authorities, whose number indicates a formidable amount of reading? Early translated, by Amyot into French and by North into English, the influence of Plutarch's method has been constantly manifest in the biographies of the modern great and in the authors who have been inspired by it. Shakespeare relied almost exclusively on Plutarch for the historical background of ancient Rome'' (PMM 48). ''North dedicated the book to Queen Elizabeth, and it was one of the most popular of her day. It is written throughout in admirably vivid and robust prose. But i.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. QUITE SUPERB ! Edition Deluxe. Demy 8vo. Pps. uncut. T.e.gilt. Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky . Complete set. In FINE condition !