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."