Plutarch's Morals: PLUTARCH.

JOSEPH CLARK'S COPY

Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. The Third [Second] Edition Corrected and Amended.

Additional engraved title-page in each volume.

Five volumes. 8vo. [182 x 115 x 162 mm]. [12]ff, 544pp; [8]ff, 527pp; [4]ff, 551pp; [4]ff, 552pp; [4]ff, 552pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled and stained calf, the covers tooled in blind with a double fillet border, and panel of a dotted roll and double fillet with a flower at the outer corners. The spines divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others with gilt scrolls and centres, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Cracking to joints, spines worn with loss of gilt, label to vol.1 chipped, label to vol.4 missing).
London: printed by Tho. Braddyll, and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster, 1694.

Wing P.2643, 2646, 2649, 2651 and 2653.

Vols 1 and 2 are signified as the third edition and vols 3-5 as the second. They were issued separately as well as together.

Good, clean copies. The bindings are rather worn, but still holding togther. In place of the missing label on vol.4, the arabic figure "4" has been tooled in gilt. An early reader has written the title out a number of times in ink. Neatly inscribed in vol.1: "Joseph Clark jr / Street / Somerset". Joseph Clark (1799-1877) was the brother of Cyrus and James, the founders of the Clark shoe business in Street. He inherited the family farm Hindayes and married Martha Gillett

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