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[Nonesuch Press] Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 5 volumes. Thomas North translation. Limited to 1,550 copies on Arches paper, this being No. 191. Original brown buckram over beveled boards, printed paper spine labels with spares affixed to rear pastedown, t.e.g; others uncut. Illustrated with plates by T.L. Poulton. Small folios. Pale spotting or finger smudging to covers, Vol. II covers cockled with some staining or offsetting to text, previous owner bookplate, uneven toning to ffep’s; contents generally clean and tight. Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the 3rd edition of 1603.