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

Stratford-Upon-Avon / Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press. For Basil Blackwell, 1928. First. . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. black cloth w gilt titles and banding to sp. boards sl bowed and white damp marked. eps show damp marking. TEG some page edges uncut. internally clean . No inscrip. Would make a very Good restoration project.

Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Excellent, unmarked condition. Slight toning to spine.

Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hard Covers. Very Good. Excellent, unmarked condition. Slight toning to spine.

Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Excellent, unmarked condition. Slight toning to spine.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1941. Slipcase is tape-mended on several edge. Books are tanned on spinecover, vol. 2 has a small chip at tail. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/Slip Case. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

London:: The Nonesuch Press,, 1929-1930.. First of this edition; one of 1550 copies.. publisher's beveled cloth with printed paper labels on spines.. The spines and spine labels are a little darkened. There is a replacement spine label tipped in at the rear of each volume. Contents fine, . Folio,. Illustrations by T. L. Poulton.. Additional postage charge will apply for this multi-volume set.

London: Nonesuch. 1930. 1st thus. Near Fine, some soil on v. 2 & #, spine label chip on v. 2; Folios, missing vol. 1 of the set. .

Stratford-Upon-Avon and Boston: Shakespeare Head Press / Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Eight-volume Set; A very nice complete eight-volume set of this well-regarded translation, or rather, duo of translations, since the translator into English worked from a prior translation into French. This is number 238 of a limited edition of 500 copies. I assume that 500 were published for the Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell for the British market and an additional 500 by Houghton Mifflin for the American market, but as the edition statement reads "Five hundred copies of this edition have been printed in Great Britain for sale in the United States of America", I am guessing that this set is identical to the Basil Blackwell set and that although Houghton Mifflin is the publisher of record, the same press actually produced both printings. The books are printed on a wonderful, thick paper, which has aged beautifully, with no… Read More

London: The Nonesuch Press. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spines and eps darkened. 1929. Limited Edition [189/1550]. Brown hardback cloth cover. 320mm x 210mm (13" x 8"). xxix, 431pp; 442pp; 482pp + plates. 56 b/w plates. Heavy set– extra shipping needed for overseas. .

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Poulton, T.L. Limited edition, #1072 of 1550 copies, only 500 of which were sold in the U.S. Ink gift note and owner bookplate on front endpapers, spines a bit toned. 1929 Large Hardcover. Complete in five volumes. Translated into English by Thomas North, from the French of Jame Amyot, with illustrations by T.L. Poulton. Includes the supplementary lives of 1603. Plutarch's Lives, as the title is traditionally shortened, remains an authoritative work providing important firsthand perspectives on ancient Greece and Rome through the lives of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and many others.