Select lives of Plutarch,. containing the most illustrious characters of antiquity; abridged from the original for the use of schools
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3185082
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 466, [6] p., [1] leaf of plates :. ill. (engr.) ;. 12mo. Provenance: inscribed on titlepage in early nineteenth-century hand "August B. Harrison". With a pencil note on endpaper in similar hand "Lent - [?] /53". Binding: full sprinkled calf; gold-ruled on spine; gold-tooled on board edges; black spine label, gold-lettered "Mavor's Plutarch". Spine split.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) William Fordyce Mavor (1758-1837)