Plutarch's Lives by William and John Langhorne, Used

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About this Item: Blackie& Son. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date but probably 1920s - 1930s ,Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Surface of covers a little faded, Corners bumped and a little worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped, spine faded, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear. Seller Inventory # 014071

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About this Item: Chatto & Windus, 1879. Condition: Fair. 1879. 584 pages. No dust jacket. Red leather boards with gilt lettering. Vol. I. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with some creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are mildly rub worn, with some light shelf wear to spine, edges and corners, corners are bumped. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Seller Inventory # 1509711228HJG

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About this Item: Walter Scott Publishing, 1886. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1886 Walter Scott hardback, Camelot Classics series; good, aged condition copy, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. Seller Inventory # 40at9n

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About this Item: C. Elliot, W. Creech, R. Munro, J. Lackinton, 1795. Condition: Fair. 1795. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Boards are missing. Brown leather spine. gilt lettering. VOL. VI. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with some foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are missing. Some areas of loss to spine leather. Some damage to spine ends. Seller Inventory # 1502877092IMO

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About this Item: London, George Routledge And Sons, no date. H/B olive green cloth bds, VG, paper blocking to title, a little rubbed, contents clean and tight, a little light age-spotting in places, prev. owners label on front pastedown. Seller Inventory # 5900

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About this Item: London: George Routledge (no date). With notes, critical and historical and a life of Plutarch. Handsome volume in half morocco binding with marbled boards and end papers. Internally a very good clean copy. Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred Books series. Seller Inventory # 462

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About this Item: Walter Scott Publishing No date. Hardback. 4.5" x 6.5" Worn red cloth covers with gilt titles softened at corners. Browned end papers. 351pp Wt 0.4Kg Good. Seller Inventory # 5626

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About this Item: Printed for J Richardson and co; G, 1821. HARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD. 1821. Printed for J Richardson and co; G.Offor; J Sharpe and son: et al.Hardcover. Book-good, edges and spine rubbed. Corners and spine damaged.312pp. Rough cut page edges.8x6. Paste on paper title label on spine, worn. Chapters: Caius Marius; Lysander; Sylla; Lysander and Sylla Compared; Cimon; Lucullus; Cimon and Lucullus Compared; Nicias. Seller Inventory # 1120409

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About this Item: C. And J. Rivington, Etc., London, 1826. Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Volume III. Front board missing, rear board detached, but page-block binding is tight. Light foxing. Volume III of 3 books - only Vol III is available. Seller Inventory # 23821

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About this Item: David Huntington, 1816. Condition: Fair. 1816. 289 pages. Brown leather boards. Book translated From the Greek; With Notes Critical and Historical. Binding is firm which looks to have been secured with thread on the inside. Previous owner's name to title page. Heavy tanning, staining, foxing and thumb marking throughout. Light page scuffing with some dog-eared corners. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing, scuffing and corner bumping. Some light marking and splitting. Seller Inventory # 1536154932LMA

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About this Item: George Routledge & Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Condition: Good. on red cloth. Seller Inventory # mon0000077927

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About this Item: The Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd, London and Felling-on-Tyne. Burgundy Cloth Boards. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Undated. The Scott Library No.7, with introductory note by B J Snell. 351pp. Gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to corners and rubbing to spine, top section of front endpaper missing, top edges dusty and fore-edges rough-trimmed and slightly foxed, otherwise fair copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 009199

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About this Item: Thomas Tegg, London, 1826. hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. 12mo. 392 pp. tears to top & bottom spine 16mo. Seller Inventory # 500023576

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About this Item: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1111. Condition: Fair. 736 pages. No dust jacket. Red boards. Binding is firm. Light tanning and thumb marking throughout. Mild foxing and staining, mainly affecting the endpapers and page edges. Light page scuffing with some dog-eared corners. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing, scuffing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Book is a little limp and has a forward lean. Seller Inventory # 1522082571DPB

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About this Item: J Richardson & Co. et al., London, 1821. Leather Bound Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Covers are poor, but all but vol 4 are still well bound together, these are ideal for reference or rebind. Vol 4 has front board and first couple of leaves detached. Interiors in nice clean condition. Owner's name on 1st blank in each. Marbled end-pages. PLEASE STATE VOL REQUIRED WHEN ORDERING. Picture of this book available. 6.5 x 4 Inch. Seller Inventory # 05001l

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About this Item: New American Library. Condition: Good. . Seller Inventory # I06A-03473

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About this Item: Thomas Tegg, London, 1826. hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. 12mo. 412 pp. Contents: Demetrius, Antony, Dion, Marcus Brutus, Artaxerxes, Aratus, Galba, Otho, An Account of Weights, Measures, and Denominations of Money, Mentioned by Plutarch & Chronological Table. Wear to edges. Rubbing to joints and boards. Front board nearly detached. Foxing. Seller Inventory # 7904

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About this Item: Walter Scott. Assume circa 1890's in 'The Scott Library' series, with gilt decorated boards. VG. Seller Inventory # 18369

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About this Item: Thomas Tegg and Son, London, 1838. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. new edition. 748 pages. Text very good, tight, clean condition. Light foxing of blank end papers only. Marbled first end papers. The binding is secure but the leather hinges are cracked and there is some wear to the spine - hence the low price. See photographs attached. Seller Inventory # BM7849

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About this Item: Edward and Charles Dilly,, London, 1770. hardcover. Condition: Poor. First. 8vo. A rebinding copy binding cracked front board missing binding shabby foxed. Seller Inventory # 500019237

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About this Item: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778. Condition: Fair. 1778. 403 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather. Pages are heavily dulled and foxed throughout with thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubwear all over. Leather is peeling and chipped in areas. Moderate tears to spine. Seller Inventory # 1575059625IAL

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About this Item: Printed for J Mawman; F & C Rivington et al, 1810. a new edition. Full tree calf, G+. 357pp, leather rubbed at the egdes spine scuffed, Ex Library [ Eccles Hotel, Bantry Bay ] with Occasional ink stamp, a nice copy. Odd volume. Covers the lives of Paulus Æmilius, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato The Censor, Philop men, Titus Quinctius Flaminius & Pyrrhus. Popular translation on Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives' in which he give biographies of emminent Greeks & Romans & then offers comparisons on their virtues & morals. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus [ 46 - 120 ] 250 grams. Seller Inventory # 30954

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About this Item: Thomas Tegg, 1825. Hardback. Condition: Good. This book is from our pre ISBN stock and could therefore be over 50 years old. It will have a general appearance commensurate with its age including age effects to page edges, binding and boards. Dust jacket is absent unless otherwise stated Usual signs of a well read book but good overall condition. May not look good on your bookcase after reading and probably not suitable as a present unless hard to find elsewhere MOST IMAGES ARE STOCK PHOTOS. IF YOU NEED A PARTICULAR EDITION PLEASE SEND US A MESSAGE BEFORE PURCHASING SO THAT WE CAN CHECK THAT THE ONE ON OFFER IS THE ONE YOU REQUIRE. SECURE DAILY POSTING FROM UK. 30 DAY GUARANTEE. Seller Inventory # mon0002628180

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About this Item: George Routledge & Sons, London. Hard Cover. Good hardback copy. Green cloth covers. Slight tear to top spine but binding firm. Book plate on inside cover. Prize presented by the Congregational Church, Hitchin dated December 1908. xxxi, 736 pages. "Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books" series Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 009384

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About this Item: Ward Lock & Co, 1881. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardback, no D/J. xx, 748pp. nd. [circa 1881]. A small abrasion and some marking to boards and spine. The book is in good used condition. Coffee Brown cloth, with some signs of shelf wear. Plutarchs Lives translated by John and William Langhorne. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.The contents include an introduction and chapters entitled :-Alcibiades; Caius Marcus Coriolanus; Alcibiades and Coriolanus compared; Nicias; Marcus Crassus ; Nicias and Crassus, Alexander; Julius Caesar; Demosthenes; Cicero; Demosthenes and Cicero. At the back of The book is a (6) page Chronological table, and an account of Weights, Measures, and Denominations of Money table. There is much more to this; 748 page book than one first assumes. Deep in History it travels to where many books do not, and reads easily. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # MC1556

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About this Item: Walter Scott, 1886. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Orders over $70.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # aruq

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About this Item: Walter Scott Ltd the Camelot Series, 1887. Condition: Good Hardback. No Jacket. Seller Inventory # 005883

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About this Item: London: William Tegg No date c New Revised Edition, 1865. vg copy. Hb. Navy blue cloth bound cover, with gilt titles & design on spine, and impressed titles and design on front board. Cover slightly bumped to extremities. Spine leaning slightly. Original dark brown end papers. Unpriced. 748pgs. v tight leaves, but both hinges slightly loose. Foxing on some pages. Neat black ink signature at top of title page, but no other inscriptions. 'Translated from the original Greek. A new edition, carefully revised, with notes, critical and historical; and a life of Plutarch.'. Seller Inventory # 16820

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About this Item: Derby & Jackson, New York, 1858. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo. Hardcover Cloth. 1858. Ex-Library with the usual treatments. Text in English 748 pp. Bound in contemporary brown buckram. Cover is moderately rubbed along extremities. Interior pagse are lightly foxed throughout. Binding solid. Seller Inventory # GRP102076904

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