Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. The Modern Library, 1932. Modern Library "Giants," G5. Dryden translation. xxiv/1309 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in in reddish brown cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and publisher's device stamped in silver on front cover. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket shows loss at top edge of spine panel, with tears and chipping to panel. Minor loss can be seen at edges and corners. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover, with illustration on front cover shows brightly.  "Plutarch was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, but spent may years both in Athens and in Rome. There he acquired his vast knowledge of the literature and history of his times. His biographies have served as models for all who came after him. Afer all these centuries, they retain their full vigor and fascination; the biographer of today could scarcely approach the same subjects in a more modern manner. The present translation was made by a number of scholars, among whom Dryden was the most illustrious, and was published at the end of the seventeenth century. In 1864, Arthur Hugh Clough revised the work from beginning to end; the Modern Library reader is ths asured of the most modern and accurate Plutarch in existence."