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PLUTARCH. - Selected Lives from the Parallel Lives of The Noble Grecians and Romans. The Dryden Translation with illustrations specially prepared for an English edition of 1676.

Title: Selected Lives from the Parallel Lives of The Noble Grecians and Romans. The Dryden Translation with illustrations specially prepared for an English edition of 1676.
Description: Med. 8vo; pp. [x], 462; marbled endpapers, illustrated facsimile title page, several illustrations in text, bound in original quarter brown leather with brown cloth boards, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration on spine and boards, all edges gilt, silk page marker, very good copy. Pennsylvania; The Franklin Library; 1982. A series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. Written by the Ancient Greek philosopher and translated by Dryden, with illustrations prepared for the English edition of 1676.

Keywords: history roman greek biography

Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 121688