Plutarch, Vitae parallelae, 1723-1729; Moralia, 1795-1800, together 11 volumes, navy morocco by Bozerian

Plutarch

An eighteenth-century set of Plutarch's works in Greek, uniformly bound by Bozerian, comprising:

Vitae parallelae. London: James Tonson and John Watts, (1723)-1729, 5 volumes

Αποφθεγματα βασιλεων και στρατηγων... Apophthegmata regum et imperatorum. Apophthegmata Laconica... London: [William Bowyer for] William Darres and Claude Dubosc, 1741, part 2 only (containing the Laconica)

Τα ηθικα... Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1795-1800, 5 volumes (only, of 8)

together 11 volumes, 4to (290 x 225mm.), p

arallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, engraved headpiece at the start of each Life containing a portrait, engraved frontispiece in volume 5, uniform contemporary navy morocco by Bozerian tooled in blind with gilt fillet borders, gilt edges, some light browning, first two volumes damp-stained and slightly damaged at foot, bindings a little rubbed and scraped, adhesive labels to spines of some volumes; sold as a set not subject to return

The Parallel Lives were edited by Augustine Bryant, the Apophthegmata by Michael Mattaire, and the Moralia by Daniel Wyttenbach.

LITERATURE

ESTC T106982, T106654, T106983

PROVENANCE

Henry Labouchere, bookplates