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Plutarch's Lives. (Ten Volumes in slip-case)
Edité par J.M. Dent, London, 1898
Vendeur : Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australie
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Cloth boards in slip-case. W.H.D. Rouse (ed.) (illustrateur). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, complete in ten volumes, small octavo. The Temple Plutarch, "Englished by Sir Thomas North in ten volumes", original cloth boards with gilt title and decorations to spine, blindstamped owl upper boards (indicating Temple Classics series), top edge gilt, each volume b&w frontis plate with tissue guard and dec title page printed in red and black, Index to last volume. In custom-made slipcase. Offsetting to front free endpaper from the printed image on the front endpape, ribbon-markers present in each volume though some fraying to edges. Pencilled note ffep each volume indicates set bought in 1938, otherwise clean. A few minor bumps and rubs to edges. A very good, very clean set in slipcase. A bright set of plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. Each 'life' comprises one Greek and one Roman, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In some cases, such as that of Alexander, Plutarch is one of the few surviving sources. Plutarch, via the work of Sir Thomas North, was also a major source for Shakespeare's Roman plays. North (1535 - c. 1604) translated Plutarch into English in 1580. His translation remained widely read for many years. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "[i]t is almost impossible to overestimate the influence of North's vigorous English on contemporary writers, and some critics have called him the first master of English prose".
