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The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden ; and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough.
LIBRA - Rare DE7 .P5 1979b Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plutarch.
- Standardized Title:
- Lives. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Greece.
- Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 1309 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Plutarch's Lives
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, [©1979?]
- Notes:
- "The present translation--made by a number of scholars, among whom Dryden was the most illustrious--was published at the end of the seventeenth century. In 1864, Arthur Hugh Clough revised the work from beginning to end. This edition remains the standard one in English, highly regarded for its accuracy and skill.
- "The Modern Librry is published by Random House, Inc., New York, New York."
- Includes index.
- Brown cloth boards stamped in gold on spine. Front cover has S. Neil Fujita's version of the torch-bearer stamped in blind in upper right hand corner.
- "Jacket design by R. D. Scudellari."--Dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Plutarch. Lives. English. Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans.
- ISBN:
- 0394604075
- 9780394604077
- OCLC:
- 6330047
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