1970. Reprinted Edition. London Sphere Books 1970. Octavo. 285 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Plato 428/427 or 424/423b 348/347 BC was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries Plato's entire uvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2400 years. Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy which originate with him. Plato appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy with his Republic and Laws among other dialogues providing some of the earliest extant treatments of political questions from a philosophical perspective. Plato's own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been Socrates Parmenides Heraclitus and Pythagoras although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself. Wikipedia. paperback
NY: National Library Company n.d. Edition de Luxe limited to one thousand sets this is No. 51. 8vo. Four volumes bound in matching full black leather. Top edges gilt. Edition de Luxe limited to one thousand sets this is No. 51. Frontis piece. Unique early binding by Ernest Hassbaum. Full black leather with spine overlays in black & tan spelling out Plato in Greek. New end papers. Some of the spine lettering starting to peel. Else in very good condition. NY: National Library Company (n.d.) hardcover
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1875. 5 volumes 8vo original terracotta cloth; a bit rubbed and with an occasional crack in the cloth vol. 1 rebacked. Clarendon Press unknown
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1931. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett. 3d edition revised and corrected throughout with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names. 5 volumes complete original burgundy cloth. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press unknown
LOndon: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1931. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett. 3d edition revised and corrected throughout with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names. 5 volumes complete original burgundy cloth. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press unknown books
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1875. 5 volumes 8vo original terracotta cloth; a bit rubbed and with an occasional crack in the cloth vol. 1 rebacked. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover books
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press 1875. Second edition Revised and Corrected Throughout with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. 11 vols. 8vo. Bound in half brown contemporary calf and marbled boards black title labels marbled edges. Binding suffering from red rot. Spine ends slightly chipped some light marginal notations some in ink. Good only. Second edition Revised and Corrected Throughout with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. 11 vols. 8vo. at the Clarendon Press unknown books
Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. Translated with Notes and an Interpretive Essay by Thomas L. Pangle. Collector's Edition. Full red leather spine with black spine label three raised bands and gilt lettering boards with gilt decorations all edges gilt peach moire endpapers silk bookmark.; 6" x 9"; xiv 562 pp; Fine unworn condition apart from faint scratches to the gilt along the page edges. . The Easton Press hardcover
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