Plutarch’s Lives.

PLUTARCH; TRANSLATED BY JOHN LANGHORNE AND WILLIAM LANGHORNE,.

Item Number: 4056

London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770.

First edition of this translation done by John and William Langhorne. Octavo, bound in full calf. 6 volumes, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Frontispiece.

Plutarch’s biographical works chronicled the lives of the most notable Greek and Roman political figures including Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, among others. In 1770, English brothers John and William Langhorne published "Plutarch's Lives from the original Greek, with notes critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch" in 6 volumes, dedicated to Lord Folkestone.