Plutarch; Amyot, James (translation Greek to French); North, Thomas (translation French to English). The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes Compared Together By That Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea. Volume v (5). Nonesuch Press, London, 1930.

Price: US$49.63 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Volume 5 only. HEAVY. 410pp, notes, bw ills. Brown cloth beveled boards with paper spine title label (extra label at rear), printed on Arches paper. Offset toning to endpapers, small prev owner name etc on front free endpaper. Limited to 1050 copies for sale in England. This volume includes Aratus, Galba, Otho, Annibal, Scipio African, Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, Dionysius, Caesar Augustus, Plutarch, Seneca, Mitiades, Pausanius, Thrasybulus, Conon, Iphicrates, Chabrias, Timotheus, Datames, Hamilcar and Alexander & Julius Caesar compared. Size: Folio

Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia

Plutarch [Trans. James Amyot & Thomas North]. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes, Vol. 2-5 (of 5). Nonesuch, London, 1930.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Near Fine, some soil on v. 2 & #, spine label chip on v. 2; Folios, missing vol. 1 of the set.

Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.

(Nonesuch Press) Plutarch. 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 Fench into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustrations by T.L. Poulton: with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603.. 5 vols, 4to, 30cm, xxix,431, 442,454,482, 410 pages, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1929-1930., 1930.

Price: US$281.79 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 1298 of 1550 sets done in Monotype Fournier, with Garamond, Open Capitals and SB June, on Arches paper. Full page illustrations lithographed at the Curwen Press. All edges untrimmed, t.e.g. 'on the rough'; brown buckram over bevelled boards, paper spine labels with spares. A very good to fine set. (Dreyfus 63) The plates were printed variously in black, grey and dark brown, and some were portraits drawn from life: Francis Meynell and Ralph Hodgson appear as the Gracchi.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom