Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library. This listing is for volumes I and II only of three volumes. Volume I: 516pp. 1979 Volume II: 557pp.1981 Brown leather hardcover with gilt decorations and spine title gilt pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Q1 . Fine. Leather Bound. Limited. The Franklin Library hardcover
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Edges faintly foxed spine of third volume leans backward. 1979 Full-Leather. Part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 516; 557; 391 pp. Original maroon full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Includes: Charmides; Lysis; Laches; Protagoras; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Ion; Symposium; Meno; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Gorgias; The Republic; Laws; Timaeus; Critias; Parmenides; Theaetetus; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; The Seventh Letter. The Franklin Library hardcover books
London: Printed for Thomas Taylor 1804. First edition thus. Cloth. very Good -. Lg. 4to. 5 vols. This set in two different bindings. Volumes I II IV and V are in later dark green cloth gilt labels on spine. These volumes are entirely uncut. The back covers of volumes IV and V are water stained text not affected. Volume IV is later calf circa 1875 over boards spine a bit rubbed and chipped. This volume has been trimmed in rebinding and is 1" shorter than the other 4 volumes. Additionally the following defects are found: Volume I lacks the half-title; Volume II has the half-title but lacks the printed title; Volume III is all present; Volume IV lacks the half-title and the printed title the first leaf being the sectional title; and Volume V lacks the half-title. The "great" work of Thomas Taylor which was published at 10 pounds 10 shillings. Unfortunately a compromised set. Printed for Thomas Taylor hardcover books
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