Plato 428 Bc (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Special Edition. PLATO (c. 428-348 B.C.); JOWETT, Benjamin (1817-1893), translator. Dialogues of Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Protagoras. World's Great Classics Series. New York: Colonial Press, 1899. Special Edition. First Edition thus. Octavo. 327 pp. Publisher's deluxe half-leather binding with marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, and top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Plato with original printed tissue guard intact. This volume contains four of Plato's most influential dialogues: "Apology," "Crito," "Phaedo," and "Protagoras," translated by Benjamin Jowett, with introductory material by Jowett and Maurice Francis Egan. Issued as part of Colonial Press's World's Great Classics series, it represents one of the publisher's more finely produced classical editions. Interior clean, crisp, and unmarked. Binding remains sound and square. Leather and boards well preserved with only light rubbing to extremities. Gilt remains bright and attractive. [Attributes: Special Edition; Hardcover; Illustrated].

Condition: Very Good-. Clarence Cook (Art Editor) (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. PLATO (c. 428-348 B.C.); ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Dialogues of Plato and Politics of Aristotle. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Revised Edition. New York: Colonial Press, 1899. Revised Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Publisher's original quarter calf binding over marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Frontispiece with original tissue guard. Illustrated with three photogravures. Top edge gilt. Deckle-edged pages; numerous leaves unopened. Contents clean, bright, and unmarked; with numerous unopened leaves. Binding remains sound and square. Light shelf wear to spine ends and corners. This volume brings together Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato and Aristotle, works that helped shape the study of classical philosophy throughout the English-speaking world. Issued in an attractive late-Victorian binding, it combines two foundational texts of Western political and philosophical thought in a single volume. [Attributes: Hardcover].