1941 North's Plutarch Translation by Sir Thomas North of Plutarch's Lives Book27

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North's Plutarch: The Translation By Sir Thomas North of Plutarch's Lives : Two (2) Volumes in Slipcase (The Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romans By Plutarch of Chaeronea)Hardcover– 1941 Two Volumes in SlipcasebyPlutarch(Author),James Amyot(Translator),Thomas North(Translator)Plutarch, Born in 46 AD was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his "Parallel Lives and Moralia". He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Plutarch's Lives were translated into English, from Amyot's version, by Sir Thomas North in 1579. The complete "Moralia" was first translated into English from the original Greek by Philemon Holland in 1603.1941, The Heritage Press. Both volumes clean and unmarked and in like new condition. Ivory boards with black design. Spine on both volumes slightly age tanned. Both books tightly bound. Slip case has some edge rubbing, see photos.