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Complete 6 volume set. Set is in Poor condition. Only volumes 4 and 6 have both cover boards still attached. All other volumes still have attached rear cover boards, and detached but present front cover boards. Volume 1 is also missing the leather of the spine. General wear and chipping to cover boards. All text pages intact and secure. Foxing throughout. Neat bookplates on front pastedown of each volume.

A complete collection of Langhorne's translation of Plutarch's Lives, uniformly bound in full calf. The second edition to contain Rev Francis Wrangham's corrections and additions. In a smart full calf binding, with the boards rebacked. Complete in six volumes. Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives', detailing the biographies of noteworthy Greek and Romans, one from each empire paired to compare and contrast. Features the likes of Julius Caesar, Cicero, Pompey, Alexander, Mark Anthony and Theseus. Plutarch (c. 46AD-119AD) was a Greek writer and philosopher, with 'Parallel Lives' and 'Moralia', a set of essays, being his most famous works. Translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne. With corrections and notes by Rev. Francis Wrangham. Containing critical and historical notes, as well as life of the author. With two pages of publisher's advertisements to Volume VI. Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I. Collated, complete. Â This copy is from the library of Anglican clergyman and author of theological works and detective novels, Rev. Herbert Maynard Smith, and his brother, Rev. J. Outram Smith, with their ownership stamp to the front paste down. In a smart full calf binding, with the boards rebacked. Externally, very good, with rubbing causing a little loss to board extremities in places. Heavier rubbing to the head of the spine and joints. Light marks to boards. Library location to spines. Library stamp to front paste down. Front hinge is slightly strained to volume III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, with a few spots to the first few pages. Very Good.

6 volumes, each with a fine engraved frontispiece. 8vo, full polished calf with gilt spines & leather labels. London. E. & C. Dilly, 1770. First edition of this translation. Though internally fine, two of the volumes have a detached cover, others have weak hinges, and one volume lacks the leather spine labels.

6 volumes, each with a fine engraved frontispiece. 8vo, full polished calf with gilt spines & leather labels. London. E. & C. Dilly, 1770. First edition of this translation. Though internally fine, two of the volumes have a detached cover, others have weak hinges, and one volume lacks the leather spine labels.

3rd edn. 6 vols. 8vo (9½ x 5 ins). Contemporary full polished calf, spines gilt tooled in six compartments with gilt lettered morocco labels, boards with gilt tooled borders and returns, blue sprinkled edges and marbled endpapers (boards of some vols pitted and scratched and all vols with bumped corners and light wear at edges). Pp. [x] + lvi + 380 + [4] blank [&] [viii] + 500 + [2] blank [&] [vi] + 475 + [5] blank [&] [viii] + 403 + [5] blank [&] [viii] + 476 + [4] blank [&] [viii] + 262 + index + [2] advts + [2] blank, with half titles, illus with 6 engraved frontispiece plates (previous owner's engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-downs and neat inscription in contemporary hand on front prelim of vol II).