Author: PLUTARCH; CHARLES W. ELIOT (ED.)
Title: Plutarch's Lives
Description: NY: P. F. Collier, 1909. Edition de Luxe. Hard Cover. Volume 12 Only. Edition de Luxe, this is from set # 6215 of the Limited Alumni Edition. Publisher's full gray buckram with Veritas emblem embossed in gilt and red on cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g, fore-edge and bottom edge deckle, patterned endpapers, B&W frontis. Dryden's translation corrected and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough. This volumes includes the lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Ceasar, and Antony; and the comparisons of Alcibiades with Coriolanus and of Demosthenes with Cicero. Illustrated with tissue-protected portraits. Heel of spine has very slight shelf-wear, gilt on top edge has some scratches and is a bit dulled, else unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD+. The Harvard Classics Series. Vol. 12. Portraits. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 403 pp. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued .

Keywords: Harvard Classics Biography Roman History Pericles Aristides Coriolanus Demosthenes Cicero Alcibiades History Roman History Biography & Memoir


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