1749 Plutarch's Lives

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding

Present here are volumes III-VIII of an eight volume set. Lacking volumes I and II only.

Uniformly bound in contemporary paper vellum.

'Plutarch's Lives' is a collection of short biographies on famous men from Greek and Roman history, comprising of twenty-three pairs biographies, pairing one Greek and one Roman biography.

Containing biographies of Theseus, Romulus, Lysander, Brutus, Crassus, Cato the Elder, Aristides, Philopoemen, Coriolanus, Mark Antony, Artaxerxes, and more.

Illustrated with four plates to volume III, four to volume IV, four to volume V, three to volume VI, four to volume VII, and five to volume VIII. Collated, complete.

ESTC T83878

With the stamp 'Countes Wlls' to each title page.