Title: Complete Set of Plutarch’s Lives – Six Volumes, London 1758 (J.
& R.
Tonson)
Description: Complete Set of Plutarch’s Lives – Six Volumes, London 1758 (J.
& R.
Tonson)

A complete six-volume 18th-century edition of Plutarch’s Lives, translated from the Greek with notes from Dacier and others, and with the Life of Plutarch by Dryden.
Printed in London by J.
& R.
Tonson in 1758.

Each volume retains its title page, with engraved frontispiece to the first volume by J.
Miller after Gravelot.
Bound in contemporary full calf with gilt-ruled borders and raised bands; one volume rebacked in red leather.
Early ink ownership inscriptions “J.
T.
Barham 1775” to several endpapers.

Condition: complete but worn.
Two volumes split through the binding with detached covers; others with cracked joints, surface wear and losses to the spine leather.
Pages with some foxing and some stains though clearly legible

Dimensions (each): 13.5 cm × 20.5 cm × 3 cm
Date: 1758
Publisher: J.
& R.
Tonson, London
Provenance: J.
T.
Barham 1775
Condition: Used
Delivery/collection options: this lot is available for collection in person or delivery via courier
Location: WR1
Category: Antiques