Plutarch's lives, translated from the original Greek: with notes critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, M.A. In six volumes. ...
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3256664
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition. 6v., plates ; 12mo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Bookseller's pastedown pencil note. Pencil figures in margins. Eighteenth-century pencil manuscript notes on rear endpapers. Provenance: eighteenth-century porcupine crest bookplate: Glynn Grylls Helleston. [Probably Thomas Grylls, of Helston (1760-1813), Lady Mander's great-grandfather.] Leaf inserted with typescript: From W.A. Forse … Reading … Binding: eighteenth-century tree calf; on recessed cords; gilt fillets and rolls on spine; gilt lettered spine labels.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) Dr John Langhorne (1735-1779) William Langhorne (1721-1772)