Plutarch: Selected Lives, from the Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

462, [4] pp. 8vo. Leather spine, cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The Dryden translation, with reproductions of illustrations specially prepared for an English edition of 1676. Plutarch's writings comparing the Greeks and Romans remains a classic, and Dryden's 17th-Century translation is still considered one of the greatest works of scholarship of all time.