Oxford Bindings - 3 Volume set of Plutarch's Moralia - Frankfurt 1603

Oxford Bindings - 3 Volume set of Plutarch's Moralia - Frankfurt 1603

PLUTARCH (46-120 A.D.)

"Moralia, quæ Usurpantur. Sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinæ penus: Id est, variii libri: morales, historici,physici, mathematici, denique ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem"

-Printed in Frankfurt by Ioannes Saurii et al. This edition translated by William Holtzman

-1603

-3 octavo volumes in early 17th Century blind stamped calf "Oxford bindings" with characteristic diagonal hatching to upper and lower spine and original paper tickets. 

-With early endpapers using Giles Fletcher’s the Elder's (1548-1611) "Carmina" and an early (unidentified) work on Clouds and natural history. Old binding waste was a characteristic of early Oxford bindings.

-Very good condition - some wear to joints (but all firm), damage to upper spine of one tome, ties with losses. Text minor toning. Overall an excellent set of early 17th Century Oxford bindings.

- The original owner has written on the last flyleaf in an early english hand instructions to the binder "Binde these 3 qu(?) in one volume in 4o (Quarto) ...rolles and edges (Second line illegible)

Plutarch’s Moralia is a collection of essays on a broad range of subjects: ethics, religion, politics, and philosophy that offer insight into Greco-Roman thought and influenced later writers such as Montaigne and other renaissance and modern writers.