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A Very Rare Set of First Edition Volumes. Only one other listing of such a set is online, owned by Pryor-Johnson Rare Books (who write that they are not aware of another copy of this edition). Brown half leather covers with marbleized boards. Decorative blind and gilt stamping on the spines, with dual black slips on each. Five very slightly raised bands. Marbled page edges and end-papers. Woodcut engraved frontispiece (presumably of Plutarch), with tissue guard in each volume. Irregular pagination. Each volume is 500 to 600 pages long. Covers and spines are lightly rubbed in a few places. Back cover of volume 1 is nearly detached, and head of spine is pulling away from binding (good only). The heads of the other spines have some chipping. No marginalia (only writing on tissue guard in volume 1). Volume 3's front end-paper has paper loss to it (possibly from a removed bookplate). Bindings are tight, and hinges/joints on each (beside's back cover of volume 1) are h...more details below |
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