[Rarebooks] FS: Plutarch VITAE PARALLELAE ed. Bryan

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Plutarch. Bryan, Augustine.( Plutarchus. Bryanus, 
Augustinus). PLUTARCHI CHAERONENSIS. VITAE 
PARALLELAE, CUM SINGULIS ALIQUOT. GRAECE ET 
LATINE. ADDUNTER VARIANTES LECTIONES EX MSS. 
CODD. VETERES & NOVAE, DOCTORUM VIRORUM NOTAE & 
EMENDATIONES, ET INDICES ACCURATISSIMI [FIVE 
VOLUMES]. Londini [London]: Ex Officinâ Jacobi 
Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723 -1729. Illus. with 
an engraved frontis (in Vol. I) by G[erard] van 
der Gucht after Thornhill, engraved portrait head 
pieces (from gems) also by van der Gucht, 
numerous woodcut head and tail pieces. Title page 
volume I in red and black; volumes 2-5 titles in 
Greek. 4to. Half brown morocco over marbled 
boards; heads, tails, and raised bands decorated 
in gilt, gilt volume numbers and titles to two 
compartments, blind tooled decorations to three 
compartments, all edges marbled, marbled 
endpapers.  Graesse V, 355. Lowndes IV, 1890. 
Brunet IV, 736. ESTC T106982. See ODNB, 
article/3787. First edition thus.

A much admired and respected edition of 
Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Brunet called it 
"Belle edition qui represénte le texte de 
l'édition de Paris, 1624;" and Lowndes called it 
"An excellent edition." Augustine Bryan (d. 1726) 
was a classical scholar and Church of England 
clergyman educated at St Paul's School and 
Trinity College. The present work went to print 
just before his death only ten years after his 
graduation. It was completed by Moses du Soul. 
Both the Latin and Greek texts were printed 
primarily from the Paris edition of 1624, though 
with a few corrections and comments. Spines 
scuffed, extremities rubbed, short splits to 
joints near heads on two volumes, tears to head 
of spines with some minor loss on three volumes, 
top edge trimmed, occasional browning or toning, 
but still overall a very good set.  [35572] 
$1850.00 


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