William and Plutarch (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 222 pages, plus short introduction by Eduard C. Lindeman, who selected and edited the excerpts. First printing stated. The persons included are Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Alcibiades, Cicero, and Alexander the Great. Mass-market paperback with soil and wear to wraps, from which an outer glassine layer is peeling, top edge dust-soiled, pages brown with age, crack along front of spine but backstrip firmly attached. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages unmarked.…

Leather. Condition: Poor. 8.5" x 5.5", 471pp. The pages are foxed with a stain on the lower corner of the last 50pp. The front cover is detached and the spine is mostly perished.

weight: 2.8 lb Good, spine end and corners worn, hinges beginning to split, light dampstains throughout. 8vo.24.5x15.5 cm. 688 pp. + 16 pp. ads. Contemporary half black leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine title.

Leatherbound Hardback. Condition: Worn Condition. FRONT & BACK COVERS SEPARATED BUT STILL PRESENT. SPINE COVER AND COVERS ARE VERY RUBBED. INTERNAL PAGES ARE STAINED & MOTTLED THROUGHOUT. Still readable and ready to visit the bindery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Two volumes; Good for year (1903). Hardcover. Half marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Wear and sun-fading to covers and spine. Foxing to title pages. Well- bound. Owner's name on flyleaf of both volumes. . No Dustjacket. With portrait illustrations to chapter heads "Translated from the Greek with notes critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch". 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.…

Full Calf. Condition: In need of re-backing. No Dust Jacket. An American Edition. Duodecimo, (18.75cm/7.5inches), full calif, pp. 376 . John Langhorne, (born March 1735, - 1779, ), poet and English translator of the 1st-century Greek biographer Plutarch; his work anticipates that of George Crabbe in its description of the problems facing the poor. He was a country rector after 1766. His best work is perhaps The Country Justice (3 parts, 177477). His translationjointly with his brother Williamof Plutarch appeared in 1770.…

4 vols. 12mo, publisher's cloth. Printed from the Last London edition. A few small chips to the spines; all four volumes clean, tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B1 4.

Condition: Gut. Einzelband. XII, 589, (1), 10 Pages. Ancient greek-english parallel text. - Capitals a bit bumped. A bit dusted. Otherwise good and clean copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 499 Kl. 8° (15-17,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband . [Hardcover / fest gebunden].

Cloth. Condition: Good. (Gratefully Corrected and Printed from the Last London Edition) Four volumes, smaller sturdy books, purple-brown cloth, gilt lettering bright on spines. Volume I title page is loose but in place, slight tears to spine tops and bottom edges, badly worn at most tips. Volumes I, 440 pages. A tiny tear in the margin of last page. Volume II, 465 pages. Volume III: 471 pages. Tiny tear to final end paper. Volume IV: 435 pages.A bookplate for Norman Vedder Cook on inside front cover of each volume.Good Set. 0. …

A new edition, carefully corrected throughout in six volumes. - Full leathers, spines of volume 1,2 and 4 damaged.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Six Volumes. Later leather panels nicely affixed to front and rear of boards to create full leather effect. Hinges sturdy probably expertly tightened. Spine with 6 compartments of gilt tooled bands. Wear to extremities. Small piece gouged from spine of second volume. Marbled paste down and free end papers. Bookplate of Richard Goolden appears at front endpaper in each volume. Pages toned.…

, volume I, 380 pages, Volume II, 500 pages, Volume III, 475 pages, Volume IV, 403 pages, Volume V, 476 pages, and Volume VI, 543 pages, dedication and 15 preliminary pages with frontispiece to volume one, title pages in each volume Sixth edition, corrected , edges rubbed, few title labels missing, otherwise good condition, some end papers lightly spotted and paper a little darkened, internally clean, in good condition , original tree calf re laid with new matching spines circa 1880, leather title and volume labels, gilt bands, hinges neatly strengthened with brown cloth Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback ISBN. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). Pages tanned. Minor bumping and rubbing to boards. Spine labels browned. V1: very minor pencilling to a few pages. Rear hinge starting to weaken. V3: rear hinge cracked. Front hinge starting. V5: front hinge cracked. Rear hinge weakening.; V1: xxiv, 516 pp; V2: 507 pp; V3: 518 pp; V4: 508 pp; V5: 534 pp. No date likely between 1890s -1900s; 5 Volume Set. Plutarch's Lives and Writings; 2583 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Four volumes. Contemporary tree calf, decorative gilt spines and gold tooled borders on the boards. Contemporary owner's name in ink on title page of v. 1 and front fly leaf of vols. 2 and 4; later owner's name in pencil on front pastedowns. Spines moderately toned and faded, endpapers foxed, front hinge of v. 4 is split, else very good overall. Langhorne's classic edition of Plutarch in a handsome early American binding.…

Full Leather Original. Condition: Very Good for Age. Dust Jacket Condition: Leather Case, No Jacket. Seventh Edition Leather. 6 vol,set, original leather restored on spines as necessary, frontis to each vol., clean texts, new life of Plutarch himself, flyleaf signature of William Peel in most vols. Complete set of Plutarch's Greek biographies in six volumes in original leather cases in good condition for age, Langhorne translation. This set of biographies is Plutarch's main and classic work Size: Sm 8vo. Engraved Frontis in Each Volume (illustrator). Association Copy. …

[Greek and Roman Biography] LEATHER-BOUND BOOK LOVERS' LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (24 x 15 x 44cm). Number 618 of 1000 sets thus. Illustrated with photogravure reproductions of paintings and sculptures. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others trimmed. A lovely crisp, clean set, presented in an attractive new leather binding.…

[Ancient History and Biography] FINELY BOUND SIXTH EDITION. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 14cm). With an etched frontispiece by W. Ridley to volume I. Elegantly bound (circa 1870s) in tan half calf, with red and black labels, full gilt back, marbled sides, drab endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting within chiefly to prelims and final gatherings. Bindings pleasingly aged with very little wear. A bright, fine set. An important English translation of Plutarch's parallel Lives, first published in six volumes in 1770. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Normanton, an Irish peer (almost certainly the 3rd Earl, James Agar, 1818-1896) a Peelite and Tory MP for Wilton, Hampshire).…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Later Edition. 8 volumes ea. 300-400pp. Original leather binding with inlaid gold lettering and design on the spines. The volumes are fully intact, and the binding is tight. In some places the leather is flaking and creased and slightly separated at some hinges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcovers in early (likely original) full leather bindings. Originally issues in 8 volumes - this set bound in 4. Brown leather with black title labels on the spine, along with volume numbers and gold bands. Bindings tight, with some rubbing and scuffing. Each of the 8 volumes is paginated separately, with its own title page. At the end of the first book there is a tear to the upper corner resulting in the loss of some text, on the final two leaves. The final page of text seems to be missing altogether. All 4 volumes have a bookplate on the inside front cover with the name 'Paul Sleman Clark.' All have a small rubberstamp on the inside back cover with the Clark coat of arms and the word Clark. This is a nice early Philadelphia edition of Plutarch. Volumes measure 4.25 x 7 inches. They take up just over 6" of shelf space. International shipping will require some extra postage, because this is a 4 volume set.…

Condition: Very Good. Ithaca, [NY]: Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff, 1840. Octavo; full contemporary calf with gilt ruling and leather title label to spine; 432pp. Scuffing and a few chips and gashes to boards; binding sound; toning and 19th-century ownership inscription to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy.…

Condition: Very Good-. Philadelphia, PA: Hickman and Hazzard / William Brown, Printer, 1822. "A New Edition, Carefully corrected, and the index much amended, and accurately revised throughout." Four octavo volumes (22cm); full contemporary flame sheep, red gilt spine labels; collated complete; engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Boyd. Leather rather dried and rubbed at margins with some brief peeling to a few boards, joints tender and textblocks spotted throughout. About Very Good overall. Provenance: Mid-19th century ownership rubberstamp "Library of Hannibal Hamlin" to Vol. I title page. Hamlin served as Vice President to Abraham Lincoln during his first term, from 1861 to 1865. …

London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1792. 8vo. Orig. polished calf. Spine with morocco label (rubbed and chipped edges). With frontisps. Previous library stamp on prelim. pages. Previous owner's name on title-page in Vol. 3. and Vol. 4. Hinges cracked. Light toning around edges of some endpapers and offsetting on title-pages, otherwise a very good set examining the life of this important Greek philosopher.…