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Ex-Library Library plates inside front cover. No other library features found. The pages are slightly darkened and have age spotting. Pages and binding are tight. Leather covered boards. Leather is discolored and chipping off around the edges. Spine is badly chipped and worn with splits along the edges. 262 pages plus extensive index. Volume 6 only.

Volumes 1-7 of an 8 volume set. 12mo in full calf, black leather title labels. Some boards detached, others nearly so. Foxing throughout.

5 volumes (of 6). Includes volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. Lacking volume 3. Old leather, dry, cracking at hinges, spines with loss. Marbled end sheets. Portrait of Plutarch on front. Lovely engraved bookplate of Henry B. Thompson, Brookwood Farm. Armorial bookplate of James Inglis. Translated from the Greek. Sold with all faults.

Eight volumes (complete). A Good set in full brown leather with black leather spine labels. Covers worn, and a large chip to Volume VI spine label. The bindings are sound. Tanning/foxing to the paper, but the text is unmarked and legible throughout. (Not ex-library. )

5 volumes (of 6). Includes volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. Lacking volume 3. Old leather, dry, cracking at hinges, spines with loss. Marbled end sheets. Portrait of Plutarch on front. Lovely engraved bookplate of Henry B. Thompson, Brookwood Farm. Armorial bookplate of James Inglis. Translated from the Greek. Sold with all faults.

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.

Matching set of three: Octavo, 9.7 in. x 6 in. Cambridge paneled light calf with elaborately tooled frames in gilt and iblack; gilt diamonds centered on front and back. Gilt title to black panels on spines; elaborate gilt decoration, and four raised bands, to spines. Publisher's red marbling to edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Bookseller's sticker ("Sam's Bookseller and BInder") to front pastedowns. Light spotting to endpapers and bookplates. Spines and hinges tight. Pages very clean. Volume I: pp. 635. Bookplate of "John Thomas Ord" to front pastedown. Volume II: pp. 517. Bookplate of "Norton Powlett" to front pastedown. Bookplate of "John Thomas Ord" to front free endpaper. Volume III: pp. 743. Bookplate of "Norton Powlett" to front pastedown. Bookplate of "John Thomas Ord" to front free endpaper. Bottom front corner bumped. Light staining to front. Chips to top/bottom of spine. Beauiful leather-bound edition of this essential work. Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.

[Isaiah Thomas imprint: Ancient Works in the New World] 6 volume set. Bound in contemporary speckled calf. Gilt-lettered, black morocco spine labels. Wear to bindings, some of the heads chipped. Two joints cracked. Some foxing, browning. Engraved frontispiece plates by Amos Doolittle. Vol. 1: xii, [1], 14-390 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 390 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 390 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: [4], 432 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 5: [4], 432 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 6: vi, [1], 8-274, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates. Shaw and Shoemaker 7073. Early signature of Ezekiel Whelman (Essex, Mass, 1751-1816). Later signature of Lilian Bryant, 1900. Additional note: Interestingly, President William Henry Harrison owned a copy of this edition.

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.

6 Volumes. Bound in contemporary diced leather. Gilt spine. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Loss to all but 4 spine labels. Owners name to verso of FEP. Clean pages. Light notation in pencil throughout.