Binding: Leather,Place of Publication: Boston and New York,Signed: Yes,Publisher: Shakespeare Head Press,Subject: Biography & Autobiography,Year Printed: 1928,Original/Facsimile: Original,Language: English,Illustrator: Thomas Lowinsky,Special Attributes: Illustrated, Limited Edition, Numbered, Signed by Illustrator, Fine Leather Bound by Riverside Press, Great Condition,Author: Plutarch,Topic: Ancient Romans and Greeks,Country of Origin: United States Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes Translated by Sir Thomas North Author: Plutarch Title: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes Translated by Sir Thomas North Publication: Boston and New York: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928 Edition: Limited Edition #33 of 500 Description: Thomas Lowinsky. Fine Leather Bound by the Riverside Press. PLUTARCH. Translated by Sir Thomas North. Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Cheronea: Translated out of Greek into French by James Amyot: and out of French into English by Thomas North. Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press; published for Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1928. Complete in 8 volumes. ​Format / Dimensions: 8 volumes, octavo/small imperial octavo, measuring approximately 9.25" × 6.5". Exquisite three-quarter crushed crimson morocco over matching cream/light buckram boards by The Riverside Press (with their binder's stamp to the recto of the front free endpaper). Some light soiling to leather. Spines divided into six compartments with raised bands; gilt-lettered direct in two compartments (PLUTARCH’S LIVES / VOLUME [I–VIII]), the remaining four compartments framed with elaborate gilt borders and circular oval corner ornaments. Top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed with deckle preserved. Printed on fine laid, watermarked rag paper by Bernard Newdigate at the renowned Shakespeare Head Press. Pages are remarkably bright and clean, without marks or foxing. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies printed in Great Britain for sale in the United States (this set being No. 35), out of an overall edition of 600 sets. Decorated throughout by Thomas Lowinsky, featuring woodcut medallion portraits, headpieces, ornamental borders, and classical architectural plates. ​A centerpiece of fine press printing, uniting Sir Thomas North’s foundational Elizabethan prose translation of Plutarch—the direct textual source for William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus—with the master typography of Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press. Bound by the Riverside Press in scarlet morocco, this set is in exceptionally fresh condition with wide margins, crisp uncut edges, and lustrous shelf appeal. . Near Fine. Seller ID: 1136 Subject: Ancient History, Biography & Autobiography