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Plutarch's Lives, large paper edition, 1/500
Plutarch's Lives, large paper edition, 1/500
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Description
Heading: (Shakespeare Head Press)
Author: Plutarch
Title: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
Place Published: Stratford-Upon-Avon
Publisher:Shakespeare Head Press for Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1928
Description:

8 volumes. Illustrated. (8vo) original cloth-backed boards, black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. No. 338 of 500 in the large paper edition for the United States.

A handsome edition, another fine production from the Shakespeare Head Press. Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen, (1857-1920) was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press. After Bullen's death the press was continued by a partnership including Basil Blackwell, the Oxford bookseller. The present set dates from the latter period.

Condition
Light wear; rear hinge of Vol. I just starting, Vol III with slightly shaken binding; very good.
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