Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek, with notes, critical and historical, and a new Life of Plutarch.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1792
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3003760
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v., plates ; 8vo. Old Felbrigg shelfmark: [in pencil at front, and at rear] U5. One pencil annotation, v.6 endpaper. Provenance: armorial bookplate, lettered "William Lukin" [i.e. Vice-Admiral William Lukin, later William Lukin Windham (1768-1833)]; inscribed "Anne Thellusson" [i.e. Anne (Lukin) Windham, née Thellusson (1775-1849)]. Binding: nineteenth-century tree calf; gilt toll border; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, board edges & turn-ins; gilt lettered & numbered green & black spine labels: Plutarch by Langhorne; marbled endpapers & edges.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)