PLATON

Pléiade library edition printed on India paper.
Publisher's bindings in full green grained sheep, grey top edges, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
Fine complete set retaining its cellophane wrappers but lacking its soft cases.

Elegant two-volume edition, late 18th century.

Contemporary binding in full brown calf, smooth spine with six compartments decorated with gilt fleurons and friezes, title and volume labels in darker calf, the volume label in neoclassical style, headcaps and board edges decorated with gilt frieze, marbled edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Usual wear to joints, corners slightly bumped, some repairs to boards and scattered foxing.

Two volumes divided into ten Books, composed of gatherings alternating 8 leaves and 4 leaves. Signature error in the second volume at p. 371.

Second edition.
Contemporary half cloth. Bluish paper boards. Title label, with lack. Corners slightly bumped.
Ex exergue: this work has been adopted for rhetoric and humanities classes by the public instruction commission. Decree of November 13, 1818.