The Republic by PLATO - 1898

Two volumes. 4to. [4], 389, [1]; [4], 351, [1] pp. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers, bound for Hatchards, Piccadilly. Boards are slightly marked, otherwise an excellent set. A deluxe edition of Plato's Republic by the London publisher and bookseller Arthur L. Humphreys, bound for Hatchards, most likely by one of the major London binderies. Reprinted from the 1852 translation by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan, two classics professors at Cambridge University, the most popular English rendering of the Republic until the appearance of Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato's complete works late in the nineteenth-century. An attractive set.